Notochoerus

Notochoerus is an extinct genus of very large pigs from the subfamily Tetraconodontinae. Fossils have been found in Africa, notably Uganda and Ethiopia.

Notochoerus

Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner · CC BY 4.0 · 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
TetraconodontinaePBDB
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 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 27 of 39 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6 Mya774 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Notochoerus 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

39 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

Shungura — 5.07°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°E

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The named rock units Notochoerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notochoerus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Notochoerus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Notochoerus, 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

18 references

Each of the 39 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. 6 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 Notochoerus

Credit
Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notochoerus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itTetraconodontinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1925