Civettictis

Civettictis is a genus of viverrid that contains the extant African civet (Civettictis civetta) and a recently described extinct relative from the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa known as Civettictis braini.

Civettictis

Alexandre Ultré · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
African civetPBDB
Sits inside
ViverrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Viverridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Civettictis on record. 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

7 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

3 formations

Nachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.71°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EMagabet — 0.67°N, 35.83°E

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The named rock units Civettictis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Civettictis, 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

7 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content2

Picture of Civettictis

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Civettictis civetta · ummz:mammals:98652

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itViverrinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1915