Cladosictis patagonica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CladosictisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
42 occurrences of Cladosictis patagonica 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
42 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cladosictis patagonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cladosictis patagonica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cladosictis patagonica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Sipalocyon gracilis13 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata12 sites
- Protypotherium praerutilum9 sites
- Acdestis oweni8 sites
- Adinotherium ovinum8 sites
- Hapalops8 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus8 sites
- Interatherium extensus8 sites
- Nesodon imbricatus8 sites
- Neoreomys australis7 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei7 sites
- Peltephilus pumilus7 sites
- Acarechimys minutus6 sites
- Astrapotherium magnum6 sites
- Microbiotherium tehuelchum6 sites
- Palaeothentes intermedius6 sites
- Palaeothentes minutus6 sites
- Prozaedyus proximus6 sites
- Thoatherium minusculum6 sites
- Abderites meridionalis5 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus5 sites
- Acaremys murinus5 sites
- Adinotherium5 sites
- Eucholoeops ingens5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cladosictis patagonica, 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
9 references- Review of the Hathlyacyninae, an extinct subfamily of South American "dog-like" marsupials28
- Paleoecology of the mammalian carnivores (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene)5
- Sedimentology and fossil vertebrates of the Santa Cruz formation (early Miocene) in Lago Posadas, southwestern Patagonia, Argentina2
- A review of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Miocene Santa Cruz Formation2
- Cladosictis patagonica (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from the Collón Cura Formation (Middle Miocene), Río Negro, Argentina1
- The Metatheria from the Río Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Formation, Early-Middle Miocene, Argentina): History and new records1
- A baseline paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late-early Miocene) at the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, Argentina1
- Fossil Marsupialia from the type Friasian Land Mammal Age (Miocene), Alto Rio Cisnes, Aisen, Chile1
- Litogénesis y antigüedad de la Formación Chichinales de Paso Córdoba (Río Negro, Argentina)1
Each of the 42 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 Cladosictis patagonica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cladosictis patagonica · YPM:VP:YPM VPPU 015170
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCladosictis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887