Archaeopotamus lothagamensis
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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.
3 occurrences of Archaeopotamus lothagamensis 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
3 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
3 formations
- Nawata Formation1
- Nawata or Nachukui Formation1
- Nawata and Nachukui Formation · Lothagam Group1
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The named rock units Archaeopotamus lothagamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeopotamus lothagamensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Archaeopotamus lothagamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Aepyceros premelampus3 sites
- Alcelaphini3 sites
- Anancus kenyensis3 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi3 sites
- Boselaphini3 sites
- Bovini3 sites
- Brachypotherium3 sites
- Colobinae3 sites
- Damalacra3 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi3 sites
- Dinofelis3 sites
- Elephantidae3 sites
- Eurygnathohippus3 sites
- Eurygnathohippus turkanense3 sites
- Hexaprotodon3 sites
- Hippotragini3 sites
- Kobus presigmoidalis3 sites
- Madoqua3 sites
- Mellivorinae3 sites
- Reduncini3 sites
- Stegotetrabelodon orbus3 sites
- Struthio3 sites
- Tragoportax3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaeopotamus lothagamensis, 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
2 references- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa2
- The phylogeny and taxonomy of Hippopotamidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla): a review based on morphology and cladistic analysis1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Archaeopotamus lothagamensis 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 lothagamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeopotamus lothagamensis 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weston 2000)