Sus giganteus

Sus giganteus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SusPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Suidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Suidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 129 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya0 Mya

1 occurrence of Sus giganteus 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

1 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.

Sus giganteus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sus giganteus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sus giganteus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falconer and Cautley 1847