Nyanzachoerus

Nyanzachoerus is an extinct genus of the pig family (Suidae) belonging to the subfamily Tetraconodontinae. The several species of Nyanzachoerus lived in Africa from the Miocene to Pliocene.

Nyanzachoerus

Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Antoine Souron, Hassane Taïsso Mackaye, Andossa Likius, Patrick Vignaud, Michel Brunet · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
TetraconodontinaePBDB
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 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 142 occurrencesMiocene — about 55 of 142 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 81 of 142 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 142 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 24 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

142 occurrences of Nyanzachoerus 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

142 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

26 formations

Nkondo/Warwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.70°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.92°ENachukui — 3.68°N, 35.75°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.82°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.92°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.77°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.73°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°ESagantole — 10.48°N, 40.60°ESagantole — 10.62°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°ESagantole — 10.45°N, 40.45°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EShungura — 5.04°N, 36.04°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.37°N, 40.23°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ELothagam 3 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°EMursi — 5.44°N, 35.96°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EOluka — 1.00°N, 30.50°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°E

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The named rock units Nyanzachoerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nyanzachoerus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Nyanzachoerus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

559 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Nyanzachoerus, 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

46 references

Each of the 142 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. 34 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 Nyanzachoerus

Credit
Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Antoine Souron, Hassane Taïsso Mackaye, Andossa Likius, Patrick Vignaud, Michel Brunet
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nyanzachoerus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leakey 1958