Sus strozzii

Sus strozzi is an extinct species of suid native to the Mediterranean region of Europe. It was more ancient than the boar and was eventually displaced by the latter when it entered Europe during the start of the Pleistocene.

Sus strozzii

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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 least 335 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 2.245 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 19 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.58 Mya – 2.245 Mya5.8 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Sus strozzii 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

19 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

6 formations

'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EGerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EValdeganga — 39.15°N, 1.67°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EVillamagna — 43.67°N, 10.73°E

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The named rock units Sus strozzii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sus strozzii and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Sus strozzii, 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

15 references

Each of the 19 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. 3 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 strozzii

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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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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

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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. Forsyth Major 1881