Arctodictis munizi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArctodictisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 17.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Arctodictis munizi 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Arctodictis munizi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arctodictis munizi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Arctodictis munizi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Eucholoeops ingens4 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata3 sites
- Hegetotherium mirabile3 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus3 sites
- Phorusrhacos longissimus3 sites
- Acarechimys minutus2 sites
- Acyon tricuspidatus2 sites
- Adinotherium2 sites
- Adinotherium ovinum2 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica2 sites
- Neoreomys australis2 sites
- Opisthodactylus patagonicus2 sites
- Patagornis marshi2 sites
- Propalaehoplophorus australis2 sites
- Prothylacynus patagonicus2 sites
- Protypotherium australe2 sites
- Prozaedyus proximus2 sites
- Psilopterus2 sites
- Psilopterus lemoinei2 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis2 sites
- Stenotatus2 sites
- Abderites meridionalis1 site
- Acarechimys1 site
- Acarechimys constans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Arctodictis munizi, 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
3 references- Las especies de <i>Arctodictis</i> Mercerat, 1891 (Metatheria, Borhyaenidae), grandes carnívoros del Mioceno de América del Sur4
- Paleoecology of the mammalian carnivores (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene)1
- Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia1
Each of the 6 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 Arctodictis munizi 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 Arctodictis munizi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arctodictis munizi 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 itArctodictis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mercerat 1891