Aeluroidea

Aeluroidea, Ailuroidea, or Feloidea is the name of a taxon comprising cat-like Carnivora. More specifically the taxon comprises:either cat-like Carnivora in the broader sense, i.e. it is synonymous with Feliformia ; or cat-like Carnivora in the narrower sense, i.e. it comprises only the family Felidae and its closest extinct relatives.

Aeluroidea

Cryptoprocta_Ferox.JPG : Ran Kirlian Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Sassy_Lassy.jpg : Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Sco… · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
FeliformiaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 1160 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 1160 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 1160 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 380 of 1160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 204 of 1160 occurrencesPleistocene — about 473 of 1160 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 13 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 15 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 24 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 22 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 34 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 61 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 84 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 99 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 109 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 240 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 424 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

1,160 occurrences of Aeluroidea 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

1,160 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

118 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.26°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.05°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.21°N, 35.78°ENachukui — 3.89°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ELukeino — 0.76°N, 35.88°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°WSahabi — 30.14°N, 20.75°ESahabi — 30.00°N, 20.00°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 101.62°EHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 45.46°N, 101.20°EHsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.79°ENea Messimvria — 40.74°N, 22.86°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.43°EAlfambra — 40.35°N, 2.60°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.01°N, 36.00°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°E

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The named rock units Aeluroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 94 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 688 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aeluroidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aeluroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,916 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 663 sites for Aeluroidea, and this reads 240 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

434 references

Each of the 1,160 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. 422 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 Aeluroidea

Credit
Cryptoprocta_Ferox.JPG : Ran Kirlian Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Sassy_Lassy.jpg : Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Sco…
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aeluroidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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