Sthenictis

Sthenictis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
IschyrictiniPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–6.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.8–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.3 Mya9.4 Mya23.5 Mya4.2 Mya

20 occurrences of Sthenictis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

20 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

11 formations

Wood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WLaverne — 36.80°N, 100.50°WPoison Creek — 43.00°N, 118.00°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°W

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The named rock units Sthenictis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sthenictis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sthenictis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

364 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Sthenictis, 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

13 references

Each of the 20 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. 1 further reference is 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 Sthenictis

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

No 3D scan of Sthenictis 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 itIschyrictini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peterson 1910