Paradoxurinae

Paradoxurinae is a subfamily of the feliform viverrids that was denominated and first described by John Edward Gray in 1864. Pocock subordinated the genera Paradoxurus, Paguma and Arctictis to this subfamily.

Paradoxurinae

Tassilo Rau · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ViverridaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Viverridae
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 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 14 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Paradoxurinae 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

33 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

5 formations

Koobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°ELothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°E

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The named rock units Paradoxurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paradoxurinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Paradoxurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Paradoxurinae, 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

23 references

Each of the 33 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. 11 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 Paradoxurinae

Credit
Tassilo Rau
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paradoxurinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itViverridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1864