Pachycrocuta

Pachycrocuta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
brown hyaenaPBDB
Sits inside
HyaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 64 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 52 of 64 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 64 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.333 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Pachycrocuta 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

64 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

11 formations

Gerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.58°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°E

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The named rock units Pachycrocuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachycrocuta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pachycrocuta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

739 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Pachycrocuta, 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

50 references

Each of the 64 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. 38 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 content1

Picture of Pachycrocuta

Credit
xiquinhosilva
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pachycrocuta 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 itHyaenidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1938