Megantereon megantereon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegantereonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
13 occurrences of Megantereon megantereon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
13 occurrences- Pliocene27%
- Pleistocene73%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Megantereon megantereon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megantereon megantereon and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Megantereon megantereon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Allohippus stenonis9 sites
- Ursus etruscus9 sites
- Eucladoceros7 sites
- Gazella7 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis7 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus7 sites
- Acinonyx pardinensis6 sites
- Chasmaporthetes lunensis6 sites
- Croizetoceros ramosus6 sites
- Gazellospira6 sites
- Homotherium crenatidens6 sites
- Leptobos6 sites
- Mammuthus meridionalis6 sites
- Metacervocerus philisi6 sites
- Nyctereutes megamastoides6 sites
- Pliocrocuta perrieri6 sites
- Equus5 sites
- Gallogoral5 sites
- Anancus arvernensis4 sites
- Cervus4 sites
- Hystrix4 sites
- Vulpes alopecoides4 sites
- Canis3 sites
- Dicerorhinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Megantereon megantereon, 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
10 references- Principaux gisements villafranchiens de France: Listes fauniques et biostratigraphie4
- Megantereon fossil remains from Renzidong Cave, Fanchang County, Anhui Province1
- The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece1
- Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities1
- Cervides Villafranchiens de Blassac-la-Girondie (Haute-Loire, France)1
- Nouvelles decouvertes de restes de mammiferes dans le gisement villafranchien de Chilhac (Haute-Loire)1
- Die fauna zweier villafrankischer Fundstellen in Rumaenien1
- Zur Obergrenze des Villafranchiums in Spanien1
- Altpleistocäne Säuger von Schernfeld bei Eichstätt in Bayern1
- Le Loess a bancs durcis de Saint-Vallier (Drome) et sa faune de Mammiferes Villafranchiens1
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Megantereon megantereon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megantereon megantereon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megantereon megantereon 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.
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What may have been alongside itMegantereon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Croizet and Jobert 1828)