Mephitinae

No picture of Mephitinae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mephitinae itself, so it was not used. 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 Mephitinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
skunkPBDB
Sits inside
MephitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 11 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–8.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.8–7.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.7–5.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.1–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–900 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.5 Mya4.7 Mya16.8 Mya900 ka

14 occurrences of Mephitinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

14 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

4 formations

Valentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WThousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WBig Sandy — 34.70°N, 113.40°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°W

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The named rock units Mephitinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mephitinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mephitinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

388 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Mephitinae, 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

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Mephitinae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mephitinae itself, so it was not used.

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 Mephitinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mephitinae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMephitidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1845)