Ichneumia albicauda
The white-tailed mongoose is a species in the mongoose family Herpestidae. It is the only member of the genus Ichneumia.
MCSchaeffer · 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- Also called
- white-tailed mongoosePBDB
- Sits inside
- IchneumiaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Herpestidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ichneumia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Ichneumia albicauda 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene60%
- Holocene40%
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.
Ichneumia albicauda and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ichneumia albicauda and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Aepyceros melampus5 sites
- Lupulella mesomelas5 sites
- Mellivora capensis5 sites
- Orycteropus afer5 sites
- Panthera leo5 sites
- Equus quagga burchelli4 sites
- Felis lybica4 sites
- Giraffa camelopardalis4 sites
- Hippotragus equinus4 sites
- Madoqua4 sites
- Nanger granti4 sites
- Panthera pardus4 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus4 sites
- Procavia4 sites
- Schaeffia adusta4 sites
- Taurotragus oryx4 sites
- Alcelaphini3 sites
- Bovidae3 sites
- Canis3 sites
- Caracal caracal3 sites
- Crocuta crocuta3 sites
- Elephantidae3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ichneumia albicauda, 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
4 references- Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Hominids of Lainyamok, Kenya2
- Mid-Pleistocene change in large mammal faunas of East Africa1
- Structure of Nylsrley Savanna1
- Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem1
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 Ichneumia albicauda
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MCSchaeffer
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ichneumia albicauda 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIchneumia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier 1829)