Barbourofelis morrisi
No picture of Barbourofelis morrisi 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 Barbourofelis morrisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BarbourofelisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Barbourofelis morrisi 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
4 occurrencesThese 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 Barbourofelis morrisi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Barbourofelis morrisi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Barbourofelis morrisi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Epicyon haydeni4 sites
- Teleoceras major4 sites
- Aphelops megalodus3 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis3 sites
- Epicyon saevus3 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides2 sites
- Calippus cerasinus2 sites
- Carpocyon robustus2 sites
- Hippotherium2 sites
- Neohipparion trampasense2 sites
- Prodipoides katensis2 sites
- Pseudhipparion skinneri2 sites
- Ustatochoerus major2 sites
- Antilocaprinae1 site
- Aphelops1 site
- Calippus1 site
- Calippus martini1 site
- Calippus regulus1 site
- Cormohipparion matthewi1 site
- Cormohipparion occidentale1 site
- Eucyon skinneri1 site
- Hipparion tehonense1 site
- Hypohippus1 site
- Leptarctus wortmani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Barbourofelis morrisi, 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- A new Tribe of Saber-toothed cats (Barbourofelini) from the Pliocene of North America2
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the Ash Hollow Formation (upper Miocene) on the north shore of Lake McConaughy, Keith County, Nebraska1
- Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Barbourofelis morrisi 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 Barbourofelis morrisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Barbourofelis morrisi 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 itBarbourofelis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultz et al. 1970