Patriofelis

Patriofelis is an extinct genus of carnivorous placental mammals from the extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae within the extinct family Oxyaenidae, which lived from the early to middle Eocene, during the Bridgerian stage of NALMA. The first remains were discovered in 1869 by geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, and the genus was named the following year by Joseph Leidy. Over the next few decades, additional specimens would be named from the same locality, many assigned to genera of their own or to separate species within Patriofelis. Now, only two are recognised: Patriofelis ulta, the type species, from the lower Bridger Formation and the Huerfano Formation of Colorado, and P. ferox, from the lower Bridger and lower Washakie Formations of Wyoming and Colorado, and the Clarno Formations at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon.

Patriofelis

Gally242 · 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
OxyaeninaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEocene51–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51.6 Mya37.2 Mya

23 occurrences of Patriofelis 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

23 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

7 formations

Bridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°WWashakie — 41.42°N, 108.22°WAycross — 43.20°N, 108.20°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WClarno — 44.90°N, 120.20°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°W

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

Patriofelis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Patriofelis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Patriofelis, 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

11 references

Each of the 23 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 Patriofelis

Credit
Gally242
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Patriofelis 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 itOxyaeninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1870