Kolpochoerus majus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KolpochoerusPBDB
- 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 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Kolpochoerus majus 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
15 occurrences- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene93%
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
5 formations
- Wehaietu Formation · Awash Group2
- Nachukui Formation · Omo Group2
- Nyabusosi Formation · Albertine Group2
- Kapthurin Formation1
- Danakil Formation · Red Series Group1
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The named rock units Kolpochoerus majus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kolpochoerus majus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Kolpochoerus majus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Palaeoloxodon recki12 sites
- Ceratotherium simum9 sites
- Equus9 sites
- Theropithecus oswaldi8 sites
- Hipparion7 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis7 sites
- Gazella6 sites
- Giraffa6 sites
- Kobus6 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes6 sites
- Tragelaphus6 sites
- Alcelaphini5 sites
- Damaliscus5 sites
- Hippopotamus5 sites
- Kobus ellipsiprymnus5 sites
- Reduncini5 sites
- Tragelaphus scriptus5 sites
- Aepyceros melampus4 sites
- Connochaetes gentryi4 sites
- Crocodylus4 sites
- Crocuta crocuta4 sites
- Giraffa jumae4 sites
- Hippopotamus gorgops4 sites
- Metridiochoerus compactus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Kolpochoerus majus, 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
10 references- Plio-Pleistocene terrestrial mammal assemblage from Konso, Southern Ethiopia2
- The first skull of Australopithecus boisei2
- The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula2
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya2
- Fossil Mammals and Artifacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia2
- The early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Mulhuli-Amo (Buia area, Danakil Depression, Eritrea)1
- A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea1
- Carnivora from Nkondo and Kisegi-Nyabusosi,Western Rift, Uganda1
- Fossil proboscideans,Mammalia, from the Western Rift,Uganda1
- Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern Kenya1
Each of the 15 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
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No picture of Kolpochoerus majus 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 Kolpochoerus majus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kolpochoerus majus 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 itKolpochoerus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hopwood 1934)