Arctomeles ferus
No picture of Arctomeles ferus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Arctomeles ferus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArctomelesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.16 Mya and 2.245 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Arctomeles ferus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Pliocene83%
- Pleistocene17%
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.
Arctomeles ferus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Arctomeles ferus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Agriotherium1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Asio1 site
- Camelus1 site
- Canis1 site
- Castor1 site
- Chasmaporthetes lunensis1 site
- Cricetulus1 site
- Cricetulus migratorius1 site
- Erinaceus1 site
- Euarctos minimus1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Grizaya odessana1 site
- Haematopus1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Homotherium1 site
- Hyaena1 site
- Lepus1 site
- Lynx1 site
- Lynx lynx1 site
- Megantereon1 site
- Mimomys1 site
- Mus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Arctomeles ferus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Arctomeles ferus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Arctomeles ferus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arctomeles ferus 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 itArctomeles through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roshchin 1949