Tragelaphus kyaloae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TragelaphusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Tragelaphus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
8 occurrences of Tragelaphus kyaloae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Koobi Fora Formation3
- Kanapoi Formation1
- Nawata and Nachukui Formation · Lothagam Group1
- Nawata Formation1
- Nawata or Nachukui Formation1
- Nachukui Formation1
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The named rock units Tragelaphus kyaloae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tragelaphus kyaloae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Tragelaphus kyaloae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Hexaprotodon6 sites
- Reduncini6 sites
- Alcelaphini4 sites
- Bovini4 sites
- Colobinae4 sites
- Damalacra4 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi4 sites
- Hippotragini4 sites
- Hominidae4 sites
- Hydrocynus4 sites
- Struthio4 sites
- Synodontis4 sites
- Aepyceros premelampus3 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi3 sites
- Ceratotherium3 sites
- Cycloderma frenatum3 sites
- Elephantidae3 sites
- Eurygnathohippus3 sites
- Eurygnathohippus turkanense3 sites
- Giraffa pygmaea3 sites
- Gymnarchus3 sites
- Hylochoerus euilus3 sites
- Kobus presigmoidalis3 sites
- Madoqua3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Tragelaphus kyaloae, 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
3 references- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa4
- Family Bovidae3
- Geology and Fauna of a New Pliocene Locality in North- western Kenya1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Tragelaphus kyaloae
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- pat_jones
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTragelaphus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1991