Hippopotamodon

Hippopotamodon is a genus of extinct suid even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene to the Pleistocene in Europe and Asia.

Hippopotamodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SuidaePBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence11.63 Mya774 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Hippopotamodon 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

20 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

8 formations

Nagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°EPoate — 35.71°N, 111.66°ELantian — 34.20°N, 109.26°ERed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°EChinji — 32.82°N, 75.37°EErgene — 41.20°N, 27.83°EIrrawaddy — 20.11°N, 95.11°ETriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°E

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The named rock units Hippopotamodon 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.

Hippopotamodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hippopotamodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Hippopotamodon, 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

17 references

Each of the 20 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. 5 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 Hippopotamodon

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Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Hippopotamodon 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

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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 itSuidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1877