Hippopotamus kaisensis

Hippopotamus kaisensis

Louis S. Leakey · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
HippopotamusPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Hippopotamus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 24 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 8 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 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.5 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Hippopotamus kaisensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

8 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

5 formations

Nachukui — 4.53°N, 35.92°ENachukui — 3.68°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 3.92°N, 35.71°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°E

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The named rock units Hippopotamus kaisensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hippopotamus kaisensis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Hippopotamus kaisensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Hippopotamus kaisensis, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 Hippopotamus kaisensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Louis S. Leakey
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hippopotamus kaisensis 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.

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. Hopwood 1926