Hippopotamus aethiopicus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 13 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–912 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence912 ka–784 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence784 ka–657 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1 Mya274 ka

13 occurrences of Hippopotamus aethiopicus 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

13 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

2 formations

Nachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.23°N, 35.81°ENachukui — 4.43°N, 35.83°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 4.13°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°E

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

Hippopotamus aethiopicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hippopotamus aethiopicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Hippopotamus aethiopicus, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Hippopotamus aethiopicus 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 Hippopotamus aethiopicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hippopotamus aethiopicus 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 itHippopotamus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryndon and Coppens 1975