Chasmaporthetes ossifragus

Chasmaporthetes ossifragus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChasmaporthetesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 400 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 210 ka.

Pliocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8 Mya – 1.4 Mya5.2 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Chasmaporthetes ossifragus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

14 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

5 formations

St. David — 31.97°N, 110.30°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WGoleta — 19.70°N, 101.12°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°W

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The named rock units Chasmaporthetes ossifragus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chasmaporthetes ossifragus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chasmaporthetes ossifragus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Chasmaporthetes ossifragus, 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

8 references

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. 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

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Picture of Chasmaporthetes ossifragus

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No 3D scan of Chasmaporthetes ossifragus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay 1921