Hippopotamus afarensis
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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 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hippopotamus afarensis 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group2
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The named rock units Hippopotamus afarensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hippopotamus afarensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Hippopotamus afarensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Aepyceros2 sites
- Australopithecus afarensis2 sites
- Crocuta2 sites
- Damalops2 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi2 sites
- Diceros bicornis2 sites
- Dinofelis2 sites
- Elephas ekorensis2 sites
- Enhydriodon2 sites
- Felis2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Giraffa jumae2 sites
- Giraffa stillei2 sites
- Hexaprotodon2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Homotherium2 sites
- Hylochoerus euilus2 sites
- Kobus2 sites
- Kolpochoerus afarensis2 sites
- Libytherium maurusium2 sites
- Loxodonta adaurora2 sites
- Mammuthus2 sites
- Megantereon2 sites
- Nyanzachoerus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hippopotamus afarensis, 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- Repartition paleoecologique et relations phylogenetiques des Hippopotamidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) du Neogene d'Afrique orientale1
- Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-19731
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Hippopotamus afarensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hippopotamus afarensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hippopotamus afarensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geze 1985)