Martes sansaniensis
-556658834 · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- MartesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Martes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
3 occurrences of Martes sansaniensis 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Martes sansaniensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Martes sansaniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Prolagus oeningensis3 sites
- Amphicyon2 sites
- Anchitherium aurelianense2 sites
- Chalicotherium grande2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum2 sites
- Dorcatherium crassum2 sites
- Lacerta2 sites
- Listriodon splendens2 sites
- Natricinae2 sites
- Ophisaurus2 sites
- Palaeomeryx2 sites
- Proputorius sansaniensis2 sites
- Proscapanus sansaniensis2 sites
- Pseudocyon sansaniensis2 sites
- Semigenetta2 sites
- Zygolophodon turicensis2 sites
- Accipitriformes1 site
- Albanensia grimmi1 site
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Albaneryx depereti1 site
- Alopecocyon goeriachensis1 site
- Amblyolacerta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Martes sansaniensis, 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
3 references- A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans1
- La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)1
- Les mammiferes fossiles recoltes a Sansan au cours du XIXe siecle1
Each of the 3 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 Martes sansaniensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- -556658834
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Martes sansaniensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMartes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lartet 1851