Pongo pygmaeus

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Also called

Bornean orangutanPBDB

Sits inside

PongoPBDB

Diet

frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Pongo

Life habit

arborealPBDB, for Pongo

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Mass

1.73 kgWikidata

• Pleistocene100%

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.

Where Pongo pygmaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Macaca6 sites
• Panthera tigris5 sites
• Rhinoceros sinensis5 sites
• Stegodon insignis5 sites
• Sus scrofa5 sites
• Ailuropoda melanoleuca4 sites
• Arctonyx collaris4 sites
• Hystrix4 sites
• Muntiacus muntjak4 sites
• Tapirus (Megatapirus) augustus4 sites
• Ursus malayanus4 sites
• Ursus thibetanus4 sites
• Bubalus bubalis3 sites
• Capricornis sumatraensis3 sites
• Cervus unicolor3 sites
• Cuon3 sites
• Elephas maximus3 sites
• Homo3 sites
• Mus3 sites
• Panthera pardus3 sites
• Paradoxurus hermaphroditus3 sites
• Rattus3 sites
• Rhinoceros sondaicus3 sites
• Sus3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pongo pygmaeus, 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.

• A review of the Pleistocene hominoid fauna of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (excluding Hylobatidae)Schwartz et al., 1995 · Anthropological Paper of the American Museum of Natural History · journal article6
• The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesisBacon et al., 2011 · Quaternary International · journal article1
• Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern ChinaRink et al., 2008 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Linevan den Bergh, 1999 · Scripta Geologica · journal article1
• Extension of the geographic distribution of the giant panda (Ailuropoda) and search for the reasons for its progressive disappearance in Southeast Asia during the Latest Middle PleistoceneTougard et al., 1996 · Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Série IIa · journal article1
• A diverse hominoid fauna from the late middle Pleistocene breccia cave of Tham Khuyen, Socialist Republic of VietnamSchwartz et al., 1994 · Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History · journal article1
• First discovery of Megalovis guangxiensis and Alligator cf. sinensis in GuangdongHuang et al., 1988 · Vertebrata PalAsiatica = Gujizhui Dongwu Xuebao · journal article1

Each of the 12 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.

What may have been alongside itPongo through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1760)