Cynictis penicillata

Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Also called

yellow mongoosePBDB

Sits inside

CynictisPBDB

Diet

insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Herpestidae

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpestidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Mass

830 gWikidata

• Pliocene6%
• Pleistocene29%
• Holocene65%

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.

• Raphicerus campestris15 sites
• Leporidae12 sites
• Phacochoerus aethiopicus12 sites
• Procavia capensis12 sites
• Connochaetes gnou11 sites
• Alcelaphus buselaphus10 sites
• Equus quagga10 sites
• Equus quagga burchelli10 sites
• Hystrix africaeaustralis9 sites
• Felis lybica8 sites
• Papio ursinus8 sites
• Redunca fulvorufula8 sites
• Taurotragus oryx8 sites
• Antidorcas marsupialis7 sites
• Lutra capensis7 sites
• Panthera pardus7 sites
• Syncerus caffer7 sites
• Vulpes chama7 sites
• Yerbua capensis7 sites
• Bovidae6 sites
• Damaliscus dorcas6 sites
• Oreotragus oreotragus6 sites
• Orycteropus afer6 sites
• Tragelaphus strepsiceros6 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cynictis penicillata, 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.

• Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South AfricaKlein, 1979 · South African Archaeological Bulletin · journal article9
• Environmental, Ecological and Paleoanthropological Implications of the Late Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from Equus Cave, Northern Cape Province, South AfricaKlein et al., 1991 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• The Prehistory of Stone Age Herders in the Cape Province of South AfricaKlein, 1986 · South African Aechaeological Society Goodwin Series1
• Palaeoecology of the Pliocene and lower Pleistocene hominids of southern Africa: how good is the chronological and paleoenvironmental evidence?Partridge, 1986 · South African Journal of Science1
• Structure of Nylsrley SavannaHuntley and Walker, 1982 · Ecology of Tropical Savannas, Huntley B.J.&B.H. Walker, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 19821
• Re-interpretation of the Swartkrans site and its remainsBrain, 1976 · South African Journal of Science1
• Elephant Shrews (Macroscelididae) from Olduvai and MakapansgatButler and Greenwood, 1976 · Fossil Vertebrates of Africa1
• A Preliminary Report on Test Excavations at Dikbosch Shelter 1, Herbert District, Northern CapeHumphreys, 1974 · South African Archaeological Bulletin1
• Travertines and Cave Deposits of the Kaap Escarpment of South Africa, and the Type Locality of Australopithecus Africanus DartPeabody, 1954 · Bulletin of the Geological Society of America1

Each of the 17 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.

What may have been alongside itCynictis through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier 1829)