Hystrix

Hystrix

Uncredited · 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
Also called
porcupinePBDB
Sits inside
HystricidaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, frugivorePBDB, for Hystricidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 32 of 241 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 48 of 241 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 134 of 241 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 27 of 241 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 18 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 22 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 59 occurrences7.9 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

241 occurrences of Hystrix 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

241 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

44 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.23°S, 35.23°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.08°N, 36.35°EKoobi Fora — 4.13°N, 36.38°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ENubia — 22.88°N, 30.64°ENubia — 22.50°N, 30.75°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EHadar — 11.12°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EBaza — 37.72°N, 2.47°W'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°EBabladanga — 23.50°N, 87.00°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°E

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The named rock units Hystrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 155 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hystrix and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hystrix and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,035 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 222 sites for Hystrix, 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

161 references

Each of the 241 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. 149 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 Hystrix

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Linnaeus 1758