Hippopotamus protamphibius

No picture of Hippopotamus protamphibius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hippopotamus protamphibius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 3.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.83 Mya1.3 Mya

9 occurrences of Hippopotamus protamphibius 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

9 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

4 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.34°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EUSNO — 5.33°N, 36.17°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.03°E

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The named rock units Hippopotamus protamphibius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippopotamus protamphibius and its relatives

Pliocene

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

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Hippopotamus protamphibius, 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 9 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

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No picture of Hippopotamus protamphibius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hippopotamus protamphibius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hippopotamus protamphibius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. (Arambourg 1944)