Kolpochoerus

Kolpochoerus is an extinct genus of the pig family Suidae related to the modern-day genera Hylochoerus, Phacochoerus, and Potamochoerus. It is believed that most of them inhabited African forests, as opposed to the bushpig and red river hog that inhabit open brush and savannas. There are currently eleven recognized species.

Kolpochoerus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
SuinaePBDB
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 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 311 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 44 of 311 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 265 of 311 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 311 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 46 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 101 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 66 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 23 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 23 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.6 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

311 occurrences of Kolpochoerus 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

311 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

19 formations

Shungura — 5.09°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.15°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.23°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.27°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.70°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.18°N, 35.78°ENachukui — 4.00°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 32.33°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.32°N, 40.55°EWehaietu — 10.57°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.37°N, 40.23°ESagantole — 10.50°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EDanakil — 14.84°N, 39.87°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°E'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°EVogel River Series — 3.21°S, 35.20°E

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The named rock units Kolpochoerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kolpochoerus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Kolpochoerus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

481 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 255 sites for Kolpochoerus, and this reads 240 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

57 references

Each of the 311 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. 45 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 content1

Picture of Kolpochoerus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932