Pachycrocuta brevirostris

Pachycrocuta brevirostris

Nachosan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
PachycrocutaPBDB
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 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 48 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 41 of 48 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 48 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 0.0 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.58 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Pachycrocuta brevirostris 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

48 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

6 formations

Gerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°E

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The named rock units Pachycrocuta brevirostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachycrocuta brevirostris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pachycrocuta brevirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

541 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Pachycrocuta brevirostris, 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

37 references

Each of the 48 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. 25 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 content2

Picture of Pachycrocuta brevirostris

Credit
Nachosan
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pachycrocuta brevirostris · msn_fir:mgp:IGF_778V

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 itPachycrocuta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gervais 1850)