Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae

Zack et al · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- DiegoaelurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Oxyaenidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Oxyaenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 39.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Aethomylos simplicidens1 site
- Amynodon advenus1 site
- Apataelurus1 site
- Apatemys downsi1 site
- Batodonoides powayensis1 site
- Centetodon1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Dyseolemur pacificus1 site
- Eohaplomys tradux1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Griphomys alecer1 site
- Helicinidae1 site
- Herpetotherium innominatum1 site
- Hesperaletes borineyi1 site
- Ibarus ignotus1 site
- Ischyromyidae1 site
- Leptoreodon golzi1 site
- Limnocyon1 site
- Manitshini1 site
- Mesonychidae1 site
- Metanoiamys1 site
- Miacis hookwayi1 site
- Microparamys woodi1 site
- Oligoryctes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Zack et al
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDiegoaelurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zach et al. 2022