Amphictis ambigua
No picture of Amphictis ambigua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphictis ambigua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphictisPBDB
- 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 most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Amphictis ambigua on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Amphictis ambigua and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Amphictis ambigua and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Archaeomys2 sites
- Dremotherium guthi2 sites
- Dremotherium quercyi2 sites
- Eomys2 sites
- Glirudinus glirulus2 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus2 sites
- Melissiodon quercyi2 sites
- Peridyromys murinus2 sites
- Adelomyarion vireti1 site
- Adelpharctos ginsburgi1 site
- Amphictis milloquensis1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphilagus1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Amphitragulus quercyi1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Anthracotherium magnum1 site
- Bavarioboa crocheti1 site
- Bedenomeryx1 site
- Bransateryx vireti1 site
- Cainotherium commune1 site
- Chelydropsis1 site
- Chelydropsis decheni1 site
- Cordylidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amphictis ambigua, 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
2 references- A new species of Adelpharctos (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae) from the late Oligocene of the “Phosphorites du Quercy” (France)1
- Late Oligocene Amphictids (Mammalia: Carnivora) from la Milloque, Aquitaine Basin, France1
Each of the 2 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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Amphictis ambigua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphictis ambigua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphictis ambigua 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAmphictis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais 1872