Palaeonictis occidentalis

Palaeonictis occidentalis

Hochgraf, S. B. · CC0 · 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
PalaeonictisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Oxyaenidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Oxyaenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 6.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 5 of 26 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 26 occurrencesEocene58–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence58 Mya50.6 Mya

26 occurrences of Palaeonictis occidentalis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

26 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

2 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.57°N, 108.58°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°W

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The named rock units Palaeonictis occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeonictis occidentalis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeonictis occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Palaeonictis occidentalis, 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

5 references

Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Palaeonictis occidentalis

Credit
Hochgraf, S. B.
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeonictis occidentalis 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 itPalaeonictis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1892