Xenohystrix
No picture of Xenohystrix was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Xenohystrix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HystricidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, frugivorePBDB, for Hystricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hystricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Xenohystrix 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
13 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
- Vogel River Series Formation5
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group2
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group2
- Makapansgat Formation2
- Chemeron Formation1
- Adu-Asa Formation · Awash Group1
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The named rock units Xenohystrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xenohystrix and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Xenohystrix and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
243 taxa- Hylochoerus euilus8 sites
- Ceratotherium7 sites
- Gazella7 sites
- Giraffa stillei7 sites
- Hipparion7 sites
- Loxodonta exoptata7 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi6 sites
- Giraffa jumae6 sites
- Homotherium6 sites
- Hystrix6 sites
- Libytherium maurusium6 sites
- Ceratotherium simum5 sites
- Felis5 sites
- Hominidae5 sites
- Tragelaphus5 sites
- Canis4 sites
- Crocuta4 sites
- Enhydriodon4 sites
- Hippotragini4 sites
- Kobus4 sites
- Paracolobus4 sites
- Parapapio ado4 sites
- Parmularius pandatus4 sites
- Raphicerus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Xenohystrix, 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
8 references- Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania5
- The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia2
- Mio-Pliocene Mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia1
- Proximal femur of Australopithecus africanus from Member 4, Makapansgat, South Africa1
- The Neogene rodent succession of the Baringo Basin, Kenya1
- Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia1
- Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-19731
- The fossil suidae of Makapansgat1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Xenohystrix was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Xenohystrix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenohystrix 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 itHystricidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Greenwood 1955