Civettictis civetta
The African civet is a large viverrid native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it is considered common and widely distributed in woodlands and secondary forests. It has been listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008. In some countries, it is threatened by hunting, and wild-caught individuals are kept for producing civetone for the perfume industry.
Николай Усик / http://paradoxusik.livejournal.com/ · 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
- civet catPBDB
- Sits inside
- CivettictisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Civettictis
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Viverridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Civettictis civetta 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Civettictis civetta 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
167 taxa- Ourebia ourebi3 sites
- Canis aureus2 sites
- Chlorocebus aethiops2 sites
- Clarias2 sites
- Diceros bicornis2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Giraffa camelopardalis2 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius2 sites
- Hippotragus equinus2 sites
- Hyaena hyaena2 sites
- Hystrix2 sites
- Limicolaria2 sites
- Loxodonta africana2 sites
- Madoqua2 sites
- Mellivora capensis2 sites
- Orycteropus afer2 sites
- Panthera leo2 sites
- Panthera pardus2 sites
- Papio anubis2 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus2 sites
- Procavia2 sites
- Redunca redunca2 sites
- Rhinocerotidae2 sites
- Sylvicapra grimmia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Civettictis civetta, 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
4 references- South Turkwel: a new Pliocene hominid site in Kenya1
- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab1
- The use of fish remains in African archaeozoology1
- Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem1
Each of the 4 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 content1
Picture of Civettictis civetta
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Николай Усик / http://paradoxusik.livejournal.com/
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Civettictis civetta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCivettictis through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schreber 1776)