Mustela

Mustela

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
weaselPBDB
Sits inside
MustelinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 18 of 197 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 197 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 148 of 197 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 29 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 93 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

197 occurrences of Mustela 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

197 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

19 formations

Glenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WDeer Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WLoveland Loess — 40.50°N, 98.10°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EOberer Travertin I — 50.97°N, 11.35°EZanda — 31.48°N, 79.80°E

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The named rock units Mustela has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 171 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mustela and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mustela and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,044 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Mustela, 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

97 references

Each of the 197 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. 85 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 content3

Picture of Mustela

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mustela sibirica · usnm:mammals:299625

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMustelinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758