Propotamochoerus

Propotamochoerus is an extinct genus of pig-like animals that lived from the Miocene to the Pliocene of Algeria, India, Moldova, China, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Myanmar, Thailand, Tunisia and Pakistan.

Propotamochoerus

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
PotamochoeriniPBDB
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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 18 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence10.0–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–8.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.9–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–814 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences814 ka–274 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya274 ka

26 occurrences of Propotamochoerus 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

26 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

15 formations

Irrawaddy — 21.09°N, 94.79°EIrrawaddy — 20.11°N, 95.11°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°ENagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°EDhok Pathan — 33.63°N, 72.52°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WKarboliya — 45.99°N, 28.30°ENagrota — 32.70°N, 74.85°ESegui — 33.22°N, 1.17°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°ETriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°E

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The named rock units Propotamochoerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Propotamochoerus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Propotamochoerus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

590 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Propotamochoerus, 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

19 references

Each of the 26 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. 7 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 Propotamochoerus

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

No 3D scan of Propotamochoerus 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.

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 itPotamochoerini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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