Sus

Sus is the genus of domestic and wild pigs, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae. Sus includes domestic pigs and their ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar, along with various other species. Sus species, like all suids, are native to the Eurasian and African continents, ranging from Europe to the Pacific islands.

Sus

Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
pigPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 319 occurrencesMiocene — about 48 of 319 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 47 of 319 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 198 of 319 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 24 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 34 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 29 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 151 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

319 occurrences of Sus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

319 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

30 formations

Nkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.46°N, 1.73°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.91°N, 1.36°ELantian — 34.15°N, 109.33°EUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°EGerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EGerakarou — 40.54°N, 23.45°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°E'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°ETatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EBabladanga — 23.50°N, 87.00°ENagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°ENyakabingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EVia Cortina d'Ampezzo — 41.90°N, 12.48°ELishi — 34.17°N, 109.25°EDursunlu — 38.28°N, 31.91°EAwidon Mesa — 17.50°N, 121.58°EValdeganga — 39.15°N, 1.67°WBahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EShagou — 25.70°N, 101.87°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EForest Bed — 52.49°N, 1.53°EHangmon — 20.85°N, 104.62°E

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The named rock units Sus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 259 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,599 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 280 sites for Sus, 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

179 references

Each of the 319 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. 167 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 Sus

Credit
Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.

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. Linnaeus 1758