Hippopotamus karumensis
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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 least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
45 occurrences of Hippopotamus karumensis 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
45 occurrences- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene95%
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
4 formations
- Koobi Fora Formation · Omo Group33
- Nachukui Formation · Omo Group10
- Danakil Formation · Red Series Group1
- Galana Boi Formation · Turkana Group1
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The named rock units Hippopotamus karumensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hippopotamus karumensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hippopotamus karumensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Alcelaphini30 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes30 sites
- Reduncini28 sites
- Equus27 sites
- Metridiochoerus andrewsi26 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros26 sites
- Aepyceros melampus23 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis21 sites
- Hipparion19 sites
- Megalotragus isaaci19 sites
- Menelikia lyrocera19 sites
- Giraffa18 sites
- Hippopotamus gorgops18 sites
- Tragelaphini18 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki17 sites
- Adenota recki16 sites
- Ceratotherium simum16 sites
- Hominidae16 sites
- Gazella praethomsoni15 sites
- Libytherium maurusium15 sites
- Parmularius eppsi15 sites
- Gazella14 sites
- Giraffa stillei14 sites
- Gerontochoerus scotti13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Hippopotamus karumensis, 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
6 references- Family Hippopotamidae25
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya10
- The bone assemblages from the excavated sites7
- A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea1
- Freshwater stingrays from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia1
- Family Bovidae1
Each of the 45 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. 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 content0
No picture of Hippopotamus karumensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 karumensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hippopotamus karumensis 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. (Coryndon 1977)