Sus barbatus
The Bornean bearded pig, also known as the Sunda bearded pig or simply bearded pig, is a species in the pig genus, Sus.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- bearded pigPBDB
- Sits inside
- SusPBDB
- 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 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Sus barbatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
7 occurrences- 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.
Sus barbatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sus barbatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Cervus unicolor4 sites
- Bos sauveli3 sites
- Capricornis sumatraensis3 sites
- Macaca3 sites
- Macaca fascicularis3 sites
- Muridae3 sites
- Rhinoceros sondaicus3 sites
- Sus scrofa3 sites
- Ursus thibetanus3 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Aonyx cinerea2 sites
- Bubalus2 sites
- Chiropodomys2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Collocalia2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Crocidura2 sites
- Elephas2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Hipposideros2 sites
- Lacertilia2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Muntiacus muntjak2 sites
- Naemorhaedus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sus barbatus, 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- First discovery of Pleistocene orangutan (Pongo sp.) fossils in Peninsular Malaysia: Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications2
- Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrates from Palawan Islad, Philippines2
- The Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Khok Sung (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand): biochronological and paleobiogeographical implications1
- A Pleistocene mammal assemblage containing Ailuropoda and Pongo from Tham Prakai Phet cave, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand1
- The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesis1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sus barbatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Quinet
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.
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 itSus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1838