Archaeopotamus harvardi

No picture of Archaeopotamus harvardi 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 Archaeopotamus harvardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchaeopotamusPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

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.

Miocene — about 8 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 22 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.8–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

22 occurrences of Archaeopotamus harvardi 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

22 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

7 formations

Wembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.82°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.87°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.77°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EBaynunah — 24.00°N, 52.33°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°E

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The named rock units Archaeopotamus harvardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeopotamus harvardi and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Archaeopotamus harvardi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Archaeopotamus harvardi, 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

7 references

Each of the 22 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 Archaeopotamus harvardi 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 Archaeopotamus harvardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Archaeopotamus harvardi 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.

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What may have been alongside itArchaeopotamus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coryndon 1977)