Taxidea

Taxidea

Jonathunder · 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
Also called
badgerPBDB
Sits inside
TaxidiinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 69 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 51 of 69 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 69 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences330 ka–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences4.7 Mya129 ka9.9 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Taxidea 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

69 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

17 formations

Rancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WGila Conglomerate — 32.58°N, 109.48°WGila Conglomerate — 32.90°N, 109.10°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WCamp Rice — 32.65°N, 107.23°WFloral — 52.21°N, 106.58°WFloral — 50.80°N, 103.90°WTemecula Arkose — 33.90°N, 117.00°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WBallard — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSeymour — 33.80°N, 99.70°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WTacubaya — 21.80°N, 102.30°WTurlock Lake — 37.06°N, 120.20°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°W

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The named rock units Taxidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Taxidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

889 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Taxidea, 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

55 references

Each of the 69 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. 43 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 content3

Picture of Taxidea

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

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Taxidea Taxus · imnh:r:230

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1839