Hippopotaminae

Hippopotaminae

P. Brundel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
HippopotamidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.67 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 646 occurrencesMiocene — about 38 of 646 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 101 of 646 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 485 of 646 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 34 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 74 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 148 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 129 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 184 occurrences9.67 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

646 occurrences of Hippopotaminae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

646 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

67 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.73°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.09°N, 36.31°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.10°N, 36.46°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.15°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.23°N, 35.81°ENachukui — 4.67°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.43°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.92°ENachukui — 3.68°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.44°EWembere-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°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.46°N, 1.73°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.42°N, 1.72°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.93°N, 1.30°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°ESagantole — 10.48°N, 40.60°ESagantole — 10.62°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.45°N, 40.45°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°EGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.37°N, 40.23°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.32°N, 40.55°EWehaietu — 10.57°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°E'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EMatabaietu — 10.30°N, 40.25°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°EMatabaietu — 10.51°N, 40.58°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°E

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The named rock units Hippopotaminae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 270 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippopotaminae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hippopotaminae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

846 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 548 sites for Hippopotaminae, and this reads 240 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

231 references

Each of the 646 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. 219 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

Media content1

Picture of Hippopotaminae

Credit
P. Brundel
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gray 1821