Cladosictis

Cladosictis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian from Patagonia, Argentina and Chile.

Cladosictis

Pat Holroyd · 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
Sits inside
HathlyacininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 49 of 50 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 29 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17.5 Mya – 15.98 Mya48.8 Mya13.1 Mya

50 occurrences of Cladosictis 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

50 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

7 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 50.43°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 71.78°WSanta Cruz — 47.50°S, 71.88°WSanta Cruz — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WCerro Bandera — 38.88°S, 69.47°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WCollón Cura — 41.12°S, 70.08°W

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The named rock units Cladosictis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cladosictis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cladosictis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cladosictis, 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

16 references

Each of the 50 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Cladosictis

Credit
Pat Holroyd
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cladosictis 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.

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What may have been alongside itHathlyacininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887