Kenyapotamus ternani
No picture of Kenyapotamus ternani 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 Kenyapotamus ternani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KenyapotamusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Kenyapotamus ternani 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Upper Koru Series Formation · Kericho Phonolites Group1
- Tiim Phonolites Formation1
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The named rock units Kenyapotamus ternani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kenyapotamus ternani and its relatives
MioceneWhere Kenyapotamus ternani and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Accipitridae1 site
- Afrocricetodontidae indet.1 site
- Afrocyon macrodon1 site
- Afrotragulus parvus1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Anomaluridae1 site
- Barbourofelinae1 site
- Bathyergidae1 site
- Bunolistriodon1 site
- Caprotragoides1 site
- Chamaeleonidae1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Climaoceras gentryi1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
- Deinotherium1 site
- Diamantomys1 site
- Dissopsalis1 site
- Dissopsalis pyroclasticus1 site
- Dorcatherium chappuisi1 site
- Ekembo nyanzae1 site
- Eotragus1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Genetta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kenyapotamus ternani, 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- Suidae and hippopotamidae from the Middle Miocene of Kipsaraman, Kenya and other sites in East Africa1
- On the origins of Hippopotamidae together with descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Kenyapotamus ternani 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 Kenyapotamus ternani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kenyapotamus ternani 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 itKenyapotamus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pickford 1983)