Arctodictis

Arctodictis is an extinct genus of borhyaenid sparassodont that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch.

Arctodictis

Rique · CC0 · 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
BorhyaeninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta

Time the record covers

At least 3.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 11 Mya.

Miocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesMiocene21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17.5 Mya13.8 Mya21.5 Mya10.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Arctodictis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

10 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

4 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.33°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.20°W

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The named rock units Arctodictis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Arctodictis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Arctodictis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arctodictis, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 content2

Picture of Arctodictis

Credit
Rique
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Arctodictis sinclairi · MLP:85-VII-3-1

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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What may have been alongside itBorhyaeninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mercerat 1891