Voay robustus
Ghedoghedo · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- VoayPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Voay robustus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene58%
- Holocene42%
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.
Voay robustus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Voay robustus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Aepyornis hildebrandti2 sites
- Aldabrachelys2 sites
- Alopochen sirabensis2 sites
- Anas erythrorhyncha2 sites
- Ardea alba2 sites
- Asio madagascariensis2 sites
- Hippopotamus2 sites
- Mullerornis2 sites
- Astrochelys rogerbouri1 site
- Hippopotamus lemerlei1 site
- Plesiorycteropus madagascariensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Voay robustus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- A new late Pleistocene subfossil site (Tsaramody, Sambaina basin, central Madagascar) with implications for the chronology of habitat and megafaunal community change on Madagascar’s Central Highlands2
- Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene “horned” crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus1
- Description of a skull of the extinct Madagascar crocodile, Crocodilus robustus Vaillant and Grandidier1
- Sur le crocodile fossile d’Amboulintsatre (Madagascar)1
Each of the 5 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 Voay robustus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Voay robustus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVoay through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grandidier and Vaillant 1872)