Meles

Searched as Taxus. The Paleobiology Database treats Meles as the accepted name.

No picture of Meles was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Meles itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meles, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 88 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 88 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 88 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 88 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene — about 69 of 88 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–5.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.9–0 Mya — about 80 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka178 Mya0 Mya

88 occurrences of Meles 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

88 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

9 formations

Angren Suite — 41.00°N, 70.20°EAngren Suite — 40.90°N, 71.00°EGerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°ELishi — 34.17°N, 109.25°EUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WZanda — 31.48°N, 79.80°EGuxiangtun — 45.92°N, 127.40°E

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The named rock units Meles has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 78 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meles and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Meles and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

785 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Meles, 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

63 references

Each of the 88 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. 51 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

3D model

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

No picture of Meles was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Meles itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meles, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy and Cuvier 1795