Dinofelis diastemata
No picture of Dinofelis diastemata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dinofelis diastemata itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dinofelis diastemata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinofelisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Dinofelis diastemata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dinofelis diastemata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dinofelis diastemata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dinofelis diastemata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Agriotherium africanum3 sites
- Chrysochloris3 sites
- Elephantulus3 sites
- Enhydriodon africanus3 sites
- Giraffa3 sites
- Homotherium3 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis3 sites
- Mammuthus subplanifrons3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Tragelaphus3 sites
- Viverra leakeyi3 sites
- Yoshi obscura3 sites
- Adcrocuta2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Bathyergus2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Ceratotherium2 sites
- Cetacea2 sites
- Chamaeleonidae2 sites
- Chasmaporthetes2 sites
- Chersina2 sites
- Damalacra2 sites
- Damalacra acalla2 sites
- Damalacra neanica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dinofelis diastemata, 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- Carnivores from the Late Miocene and basal Pliocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya2
- Un nouveau rongeur Mystromys pocockei sp. nov. (Cricetinae) de Pliocene inferieur de Langebaanweg (Region du Cap, Afrique du Sud)1
- A new genus of late Tertiary penguin from Langebaanweg, South Africa1
- The Late Cenozoic Carnivora of the South-Western Cape Province1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Dinofelis diastemata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dinofelis diastemata itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dinofelis diastemata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dinofelis diastemata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDinofelis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Astre 1929