Adcrocuta eximia
Uncredited · 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
- AdcrocutaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Adcrocuta eximia 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
34 occurrencesThese 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
- Lantian Formation2
- Pikermi Formation · Athens Basin Group2
- Ravin de Ratavoux Formation2
- Alfambra Formation1
- Kizilirmak Formation1
- Triglia Formation1
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The named rock units Adcrocuta eximia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Adcrocuta eximia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Adcrocuta eximia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Gazella25 sites
- Hipparion16 sites
- Ictitherium11 sites
- Microstonyx major11 sites
- Prostrepsiceros11 sites
- Choerolophodon pentelici9 sites
- Cremohipparion9 sites
- Chilotherium8 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi8 sites
- Hippotherium8 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum7 sites
- Machairodus7 sites
- Miotragocerus gaudryi7 sites
- Palaeotragus7 sites
- Tragoportax7 sites
- Acerorhinus6 sites
- Bohlinia attica6 sites
- Palaeotragus rouenii6 sites
- Protoryx6 sites
- Samotherium6 sites
- Tragoportax amalthea6 sites
- Ceratotherium neumayri5 sites
- Ctenocervus5 sites
- Konobelodon atticus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Adcrocuta eximia, 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
25 references- A hominid tooth from Bulgaria: The last pre-human hominid of continental Europe4
- Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon2
- Carnivora from the Late Miocene of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece)2
- Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: new evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province2
- The late Miocene hominoid from Georgia2
- Late Miocene mammal localities of the lower Axios valley (Macedonia, Greece) and their stratigraphic significance2
- Some Pliocene mammalian fossils from Songshan 2 and 3 (Tianzhu, Gansu) and the Songshan Fauna2
- Primates and carnivores from Late Miocene and earliest Late Pliocene sites of Macedonia, Northern Greece1
- A diverse metailurine guild from the latest Miocene Xingjiawan fauna, Yongdeng, Northwestern China, and generic differentiation of metailurine felids1
- Endemism and migration in the Kochkor Basin? Identification and description of Adcrocuta eximia (Mammalia: Carnivora: Hyaenidae) and c.f. Paramachaerodus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) fossils at the Miocene locality of Ortok, Kyrgyzstan1
- Turtles Protestudo bessarabica from the Late Miocene of Ukraine1
- Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe1
Each of the 34 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. 13 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 content2
Picture of Adcrocuta eximia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Adcrocuta eximia · IPS
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAdcrocuta through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth and Wagner 1854