Wikipedia

File:Hippopotamus prehistoric distribution map.svg

Original file (SVG file, nominally 259 × 262 pixels, file size: 262 KB)

Summary

Description
English: Approximal maximum distribution of the common hippopotamus, H. amphibius, during the Middle-Late Pleistocene. Based on File:Afro-Eurasia location map with borders.svg which is in the public domain

Sources used include:

  • Radović, Siniša; Mauch Lenardić, Jadranka; Japundžić, Dražen; Sulić Šprem, Jadranka; Novak, Vibor (9 February 2026). "First Find of Hippopotamus cf. amphibius in the Quaternary of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Notes on Its Regional Distribution". Quaternary. 9 (1): 15. doi:10.3390/quat9010015. ISSN 2571-550X.
  • Stewart, Mathew; Louys, Julien; Price, Gilbert J.; Drake, Nick A.; Groucutt, Huw S.; Petraglia, Michael D. (2019-05). "Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions: Implications for biogeography and hominin dispersals". Quaternary International. 515: 12–29. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.052
  • van Kolfschoten, Th. (August 2000). "The Eemian mammal fauna of central Europe". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 79 (2–3):
  • van der Made J, Sahnouni M & Boulaghraief K. 2017. Hippopotamus gorgops from El Kherba (Algeria) and the context of its biogeography. In Proceedings of the II Meeting of African Prehistory: Burgos 15-16 April 2015, Sahnouni M, Semaw S, Rios Garaizar J (eds). CENIEH: Burgos; 135–169.
  • Roberta Martino, Carolina Di Patti, María Ríos, Lorenzo Rook, Mirko Di Febbraro, Pasquale Raia, Luca Pandolfi, An enduring palaeontological riddle: how many hippopotamid species roamed Sicily? The case study of Amoroso Cave, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 3, July 2025, zlaf063
Date
Source Own work
Author Hemiauchenia

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Captions

Approximal maximum distribution of the common hippopotamus, H. amphibius, during the Middle-Late Pleistocene

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

13 February 2026

media type

image/svg+xml

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:29, 23 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 21:29, 23 February 2026259 × 262 (262 KB)HemiaucheniaAdding Sicily per An enduring palaeontological riddle: how many hippopotamid species roamed Sicily? The case study of Amoroso Cave
19:55, 13 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 19:55, 13 February 2026259 × 262 (261 KB)HemiaucheniaCropped and moved boundary in northern England slightly further north
19:51, 13 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 19:51, 13 February 2026457 × 307 (261 KB)HemiaucheniaUploaded own work with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hippopotamus_prehistoric_distribution_map.svg"