Crocuta sivalensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrocutaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocuta
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Crocuta sivalensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene96%
- Holocene5%
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 Crocuta sivalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crocuta sivalensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crocuta sivalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Bos2 sites
- Palaeoloxodon namadicus2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Antilope1 site
- Antilope cervicapra1 site
- Axis axis1 site
- Bos namadicus1 site
- Boselaphus1 site
- Boselaphus namadicus1 site
- Bubalus palaeindicus1 site
- Bubalus palaeoindicus1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Cervus duvauceli1 site
- Cervus unicolor1 site
- Equus namadicus1 site
- Gavialis1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Muntiacus muntjak1 site
- Panthera1 site
- Panthera leo1 site
- Sus scrofa1 site
- Trionyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crocuta sivalensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Large mammal fossil occurrences and associated archaeological evidence in Pleistocene contexts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka1
- Occurrence of fossil lion and spotted hyena from Pleistocene deposits of Susunia, Bankura District, West Bengal1
Each of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Crocuta sivalensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCrocuta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falconer and Cautley 1867