Kenyapotamus

Kenyapotamus is an extinct genus of hippopotamid and possible ancestor of living hippopotamuses that lived roughly 16 million to 8 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. Its name reflects that its fossils were first found in modern-day Kenya.

No picture of Kenyapotamus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Kenyapotamus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KenyapotaminaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 530 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Miocene — about 8 of 8 occurrencesMiocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10.0–9.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11.63 Mya – 11.1 Mya16.5 Mya6.7 Mya

8 occurrences of Kenyapotamus 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

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

6 formations

Beglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°ETiim Phonolites — 0.98°N, 35.80°EChorora — 8.87°N, 40.30°ENakali — 1.18°N, 36.37°E

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

Kenyapotamus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Kenyapotamus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Kenyapotamus, 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

6 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 content0

No picture of Kenyapotamus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Kenyapotamus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kenyapotamus 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itKenyapotaminae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pickford 1983