Celebochoerus

Celebochoerus is an extinct genus of giant suid that existed during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the middle Pleistocene of Luzon, in the Philippines.

Celebochoerus

Andreas Christian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PotamochoeriniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Suidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Suidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 3.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 10 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Celebochoerus 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

12 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

3 formations

Walanae — 4.27°S, 120.00°EWalanae — 4.39°S, 120.00°EWalane — 4.38°S, 119.96°EWalane — 4.27°S, 120.09°EWanlanae — 4.38°S, 120.02°E

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The named rock units Celebochoerus 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.

Celebochoerus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Celebochoerus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Celebochoerus, 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

2 references

Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Celebochoerus

Credit
Andreas Christian
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Celebochoerus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hooijer 1848