Genetta

A genet is a member of the genus Genetta, which consists of 17 species of small African carnivorans. The common genet is the only genet present in Europe and occurs in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and France.

Genetta

Bernard Dupont from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
GenettinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Viverridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Genetta 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

38 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

10 formations

Nubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EOlorgesailie — 1.58°S, 36.43°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°ELukeino — 0.76°N, 35.88°E

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The named rock units Genetta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Genetta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Genetta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

618 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Genetta, 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

31 references

Each of the 38 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. 19 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 content3

Picture of Genetta

Credit
Bernard Dupont from FRANCE
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Genetta genetta · mnhn:zm:mo-1997-450

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itGenettinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1816