Hyaenotherium

Hyaenotherium is an extinct genus of hyaenids that lived in Eurasia and Africa during the Late Miocene. The type species, H. wongii, was one of the most numerous Eurasian hyaenids. More than 100 specimens of H. wongii have been discovered in China. H. ebu from Lothagam, Kenya, differs from the type species by its limbs which are longer and significantly thinner.

Hyaenotherium

乌拉跨氪 · 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
HyaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9–9.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.6–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.1–7.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya4.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Hyaenotherium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

2 formations

Kizilirmak — 39.37°N, 33.73°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°E

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The named rock units Hyaenotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyaenotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hyaenotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hyaenotherium, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Hyaenotherium

Credit
乌拉跨氪
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itHyaenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Semenov 1989