Gerontochoerus scotti

No picture of Gerontochoerus scotti 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 Gerontochoerus scotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GerontochoerusPBDB
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 5.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 85 occurrencesPliocene — about 11 of 85 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 74 of 85 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 85 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8 Mya0 Mya

85 occurrences of Gerontochoerus scotti 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

85 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

8 formations

Shungura — 5.07°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.23°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.31°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.00°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°EFejej — 5.00°N, 37.00°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EUSNO — 5.33°N, 36.17°E

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The named rock units Gerontochoerus scotti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gerontochoerus scotti and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gerontochoerus scotti and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Gerontochoerus scotti, 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

18 references

Each of the 85 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Gerontochoerus scotti 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 Gerontochoerus scotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gerontochoerus scotti 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leakey 1943)