Bassariscus antiquus

No picture of Bassariscus antiquus 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 Bassariscus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BassariscusPBDB
Diet
frugivore, carnivorePBDB, for Procyonidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Bassariscus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 15 of 15 occurrencesMiocene19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.3 Mya12.5 Mya19 Mya8.9 Mya

15 occurrences of Bassariscus antiquus 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

15 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

8 formations

Valentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WOlcott — 42.08°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WVirgin Valley — 41.10°N, 117.80°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°WMascall — 44.09°N, 120.01°W

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

Bassariscus antiquus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bassariscus antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

320 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Bassariscus antiquus, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 Bassariscus antiquus 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 Bassariscus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bassariscus antiquus 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 itBassariscus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew and Cook 1909)