Atilax

Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0 · 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.

Also called

marsh mongoosePBDB

Sits inside

HerpestinaePBDB

Diet

insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Herpestidae

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpestidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Miocene7%
• Pleistocene64%
• Holocene29%

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.

Where Atilax and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Panthera pardus11 sites
• Lupulella mesomelas9 sites
• Lutra capensis9 sites
• Parahyaena brunnea9 sites
• Felis lybica8 sites
• Hystrix africaeaustralis8 sites
• Bovidae7 sites
• Homo sapiens7 sites
• Pelea capreolus7 sites
• Raphicerus campestris7 sites
• Taurotragus oryx7 sites
• Tragelaphus scriptus7 sites
• Tragelaphus strepsiceros7 sites
• Equus capensis6 sites
• Herpestes ichneumon6 sites
• Hippopotamus amphibius6 sites
• Mellivora capensis6 sites
• Oreotragus oreotragus6 sites
• Papio ursinus6 sites
• Phacochoerus aethiopicus6 sites
• Potamochoerus porcus6 sites
• Procavia capensis6 sites
• Syncerus caffer6 sites
• Arctocephalus pusillus5 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Atilax, 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.

• The carnivore guild circa 1.98 million years: biodiversity and implications for the palaeoenvironment at Malapa, South AfricaKuhn et al., 2016 · Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenrivonment · journal article1
• Middle and later Stone Age large mammal and tortoise remains from Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South AfricaKlein and Cruz-Uribe, 2000 · Journal of Human Evolution · journal article1
• Environmental, Ecological and Paleoanthropological Implications of the Late Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from Equus Cave, Northern Cape Province, South AfricaKlein et al., 1991 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• Les faunes de vertebres quaternaires en Afrique centraleVan Neer, 1990 · Paysages quat. de Afrique centrale atlantique,R.Lanfranchi(ed),Paris1
• Sedimentary stratigraphy of the Tugen Hills,Baringo,KenyaHill et al., 1986 · Geological Society of America Special Publication1
• Palaeoecology of the Pliocene and lower Pleistocene hominids of southern Africa: how good is the chronological and paleoenvironmental evidence?Partridge, 1986 · South African Journal of Science1
• Structure of Nylsrley SavannaHuntley and Walker, 1982 · Ecology of Tropical Savannas, Huntley B.J.&B.H. Walker, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 19821
• The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River Mouth in South AfricaSinger and Wymer, 1982 · University of Chicago Press, Chicago1
• Later Stone Age Subsistence at Byeneskranskop, South AfricaKlein, 1981 · In: Harding, R.S.O. and Telecki, G. eds., Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York · book/book chapter1
• Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South AfricaKlein, 1979 · South African Archaeological Bulletin · journal article1
• Re-interpretation of the Swartkrans site and its remainsBrain, 1976 · South African Journal of Science1
• Paleoanthropological Implications of the Non-Archaeological Bone Assemblages from Swartklip 1, South-Western Cape Province, South AfricaKlein, 1975 · Quaternary Research1

Each of the 14 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. 2 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1826