Hyainailourinae

Hyainailourinae is a paraphyletic subfamily of hyaenodonts from extinct paraphyletic family Hyainailouridae. They arose during the Middle Eocene in Asia, and persisted well into the Late Miocene. Fossils of this group have been found in Africa, Eurasia, and North America.

Hyainailourinae

Ghedo · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyainailouridaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 76 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 76 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 76 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya13.82 Mya57 Mya6 Mya

76 occurrences of Hyainailourinae 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

76 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

26 formations

Jebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°EJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°EElisabeth Bay — 26.98°S, 15.27°ECypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°EChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WClarno — 44.93°N, 120.42°WGalisteo — 35.50°N, 106.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EMaradah — 28.00°N, 20.50°EBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EBakate — 4.27°N, 36.60°EPondaung — 21.77°N, 94.65°EErageleit — 3.36°N, 35.80°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°EHedi — 34.80°N, 111.91°ELumeiyi — 24.76°N, 103.33°EGlib Zegdou — 30.00°N, 4.00°WVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°EYuanchu — 34.77°N, 111.75°EChambi — 35.19°N, 8.65°E

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The named rock units Hyainailourinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyainailourinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hyainailourinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

913 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Hyainailourinae, 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

45 references

Each of the 76 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. 33 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 Hyainailourinae

Credit
Ghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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 itHyainailouridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilgrim 1932)