Protoryx

Protoryx is an extinct genus of goat-antelope. A new species, P. tuvaensis, was described by E. L. Dmitrieva and N. V. Serdyuk in 2011, from Russia.

Protoryx

Jonathan Chen · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BovidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 34 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13.82 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

39 occurrences of Protoryx on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

39 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

9 formations

Mytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°EKuruksai suite — 38.31°N, 69.67°EBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°EVathylakkos — 40.75°N, 22.75°EGusar suite — 39.50°N, 67.60°EKairubak suite — 37.33°N, 68.97°EKizilirmak — 39.37°N, 33.73°ENea Messimvria — 40.74°N, 22.86°EIncesu — 39.44°N, 36.49°E

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The named rock units Protoryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protoryx and its relatives

Miocene

Where Protoryx and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Protoryx, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

20 references

Each of the 39 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 8 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Protoryx

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protoryx was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBovidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forsyth Major 1891