Oligobunis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OligobuninaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Oligobunis 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Oligobunis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oligobunis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oligobunis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Leptarctus ancipidens3 sites
- Paroreodon parvus3 sites
- Promerycochoerus superbus3 sites
- Agriochoerus2 sites
- Brachypsalis2 sites
- Craterogale simus2 sites
- Daeodon2 sites
- Daphoenodon2 sites
- Desmatolagus2 sites
- Entoptychus wheelerensis2 sites
- Florentiamys2 sites
- Gentilicamelus sternbergi2 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus2 sites
- Hypsiops2 sites
- Kalobatippus2 sites
- Leidymys2 sites
- Menoceras barbouri2 sites
- Merycoides2 sites
- Miohippus2 sites
- Moropus2 sites
- Oreodontoides oregonensis2 sites
- Osbornodon scitulus2 sites
- Palaeolagus2 sites
- Phlaocyon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Oligobunis, 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- Additional Carnivorans from the Early Hemingfordian Miller Local Fauna, Florida3
- Revised chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the John Day Formation (Turtle Cove and Kimberly Members), Oregon, with implications for updated calibration of the Arikareean North American land mammal age2
- Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America1
- Additions to the Miocene fauna of north Florida1
Each of the 7 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 Oligobunis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oligobunis 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 itOligobuninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1881