Megalochoerus khinzikebirus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegalochoerusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Suidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Suidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Megalochoerus khinzikebirus 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Megalochoerus khinzikebirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megalochoerus khinzikebirus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megalochoerus khinzikebirus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Bovidae4 sites
- Dorcatherium pigotti4 sites
- Listriodon akatikubas4 sites
- Prodeinotherium hobleyi4 sites
- Rhinocerotidae4 sites
- Chilotheridium pattersoni3 sites
- Creodonta3 sites
- Crocodylus3 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi3 sites
- Equatorius africanus3 sites
- Pelusios3 sites
- Protanancus macinnesi3 sites
- Trionyx3 sites
- Afrochoerodon kisumuensis2 sites
- Choerlophodon kisumuensis2 sites
- Climacoceras africanus2 sites
- Lopholistriodon moruoroti2 sites
- Victoriapithecus macinnesi2 sites
- Afrocyon macrodon1 site
- Afrohyrax championi1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
- Bucerotidae1 site
- Burhinidae1 site
- Canthumeryx sirtensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Megalochoerus khinzikebirus, 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
4 references- The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy, and palaeontology2
- Suidae and hippopotamidae from the Middle Miocene of Kipsaraman, Kenya and other sites in East Africa1
- Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene1
- New Higher Primate Fossils from the Middle Miocene Deposits at Majiwa and Kaloma, Western Kenya1
Each of the 5 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 Megalochoerus khinzikebirus 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 Megalochoerus khinzikebirus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megalochoerus khinzikebirus 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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What may have been alongside itMegalochoerus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilkinson 1976)