Raphictis

Raphictis is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America during late Paleocene.

Raphictis

M. Fox · CC0 · 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
ViverravidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Viverravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Viverravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 4.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.4 Mya55.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Raphictis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

10 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

4 formations

Paskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°W

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

Raphictis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Raphictis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Raphictis, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 Raphictis

Credit
M. Fox
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Raphictis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itViverravidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich and Winkler 1985