Hyotherium

Hyotherium was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates under the Hyotheriinae group of the Suidae family. It existed during the Miocene in Europe and Perim Island, India. It was named by Von Mayer in 1834.

Hyotherium

Jebulon · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
HyotheriinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Suidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Suidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 63 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 64 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–7.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.5–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27.3 Mya8.725 Mya34.5 Mya4.5 Mya

64 occurrences of Hyotherium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

64 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

7 formations

Brackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EShanwang — 32.14°N, 118.70°EShanwang — 36.52°N, 118.54°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°EChitarwata — 28.85°N, 69.13°E

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The named rock units Hyotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hyotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

817 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Hyotherium, 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

35 references

Each of the 64 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. 23 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 content2

Picture of Hyotherium

Credit
Jebulon
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
?Conohyus/Hyotherium sp. · wihg:wif/a:1870

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHyotheriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1834