Gulo lucus lucus · Epoch Explorer

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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

Also called: wolverinePBDB
Sits inside: GuloniniPBDB
Diet: carnivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit: scansorialPBDB
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment: terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

1 occurrence of Gulo on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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

1 occurrences

Holocene100%

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.

Gulo and its relatives

Holocene

Where Gulo and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

646 taxa

Microtus11 sites
Rangifer tarandus10 sites
Equus9 sites
Lepus9 sites
Myodes9 sites
Ochotona9 sites
Vulpes vulpes9 sites
Canis lupus8 sites
Canis7 sites
Cervus7 sites
Cricetus cricetus7 sites
Pliomys7 sites
Vulpes7 sites
Apodemus sylvaticus6 sites
Bison6 sites
Lagurus6 sites
Ursus6 sites
Allocricetus5 sites
Beremendia fissidens5 sites
Erignathus barbatus5 sites
Marmota5 sites
Mimomys5 sites
Sorex5 sites
Ursus arctos5 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Gulo, 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

1 reference

Kangiguksuk: A Cultural Reconstruction of a Sixteenth Century Eskimo Site in Northern AlaskaHall, Jr., 1971 · Arctic Anthropology · journal article1

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Gulo

Source: Wikidata/Commons
Credit: nobody named on the record
Licence: not stated by the source
Commercial use: cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source: Sketchfab
Credit: University of Wyoming Libraries
Licence: CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use: the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside it Gulonini through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Storr 1780