Feliformia

Feliformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "cat-like" carnivorans, including cats, hyenas, mongooses, viverrids, and related taxa. Feliformia stands in contrast to the other suborder of Carnivora, Caniformia consisting of "dog-like" carnivorans.

Feliformia

Cryptoprocta_Ferox.JPG : Ran Kirlian Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Sassy_Lassy.jpg : Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Sco… · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarnivoraPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 3509 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 43 of 3509 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 203 of 3509 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 878 of 3509 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 571 of 3509 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1636 of 3509 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 25 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 57 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 46 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 37 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 34 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 29 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 23 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 31 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 43 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 79 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 69 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 115 occurrences11–8.6 Mya — about 163 occurrences8.6–6.5 Mya — about 236 occurrences6.5–4.3 Mya — about 279 occurrences4.3–2.2 Mya — about 616 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 1614 occurrences60.9 Mya11.7 ka65 Mya0 Mya

3,509 occurrences of Feliformia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

3,509 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

267 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.45°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.22°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 43.00°N, 104.23°WBrule — 42.83°N, 104.25°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.68°N, 103.40°WBrule — 43.57°N, 100.75°WBrule — 43.75°N, 101.94°WNachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.05°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.21°N, 35.78°EGlenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 101.63°EHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 45.46°N, 101.20°EHsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EHsanda Gol — 45.40°N, 101.27°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.45°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 98.80°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ELukeino — 0.76°N, 35.88°EJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WOlduvai — 2.97°S, 35.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WSharps — 43.50°N, 101.90°WNawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°ESopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WSopas — 30.40°S, 57.33°WNubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°E

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The named rock units Feliformia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 243 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,166 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Feliformia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Feliformia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,067 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 960 sites for Feliformia, and this reads 240 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

1,033 references

Each of the 3,509 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. 1,021 further references are not listed. 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 Feliformia

Credit
Cryptoprocta_Ferox.JPG : Ran Kirlian Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Sassy_Lassy.jpg : Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Sco…
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Feliformia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1945