Galerella
Galerella may refer to:Galerella (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family Bolbitiaceae Galerella (mammal), a genus of mammals in the family Herpestidae
Sara&Joachim · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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- Also called
- slender mongoosePBDB
- Sits inside
- HerpestidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Herpestidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpestidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
17 occurrences of Galerella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
17 occurrences- Miocene6%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene76%
- Holocene12%
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
2 formations
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group1
- Nakali Formation1
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The named rock units Galerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Galerella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Galerella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Hystrix africaeaustralis13 sites
- Lupulella mesomelas13 sites
- Procavia capensis13 sites
- Taurotragus oryx12 sites
- Arctocephalus pusillus11 sites
- Felis lybica11 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius11 sites
- Loxodonta africana11 sites
- Mellivora capensis11 sites
- Papio ursinus11 sites
- Syncerus caffer11 sites
- Homo sapiens10 sites
- Oreotragus oreotragus10 sites
- Pelea capreolus10 sites
- Redunca fulvorufula10 sites
- Alcelaphus buselaphus9 sites
- Diceros bicornis9 sites
- Lepus capensis9 sites
- Panthera pardus9 sites
- Raphicerus melanotis9 sites
- Redunca arundinum9 sites
- Bathyergus suillus8 sites
- Bovidae8 sites
- Caracal caracal8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Galerella, 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- The late quaternary mammalian fauna of Nelson Bay Cave (Cape Province, South Africa): Its implications for megafaunal extinctions and environmental and cultural change2
- A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae, Tetraconodontinae) from the upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya1
- The Middle and Later Stone Age faunal remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa1
- Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels1
- Middle and later Stone Age large mammal and tortoise remains from Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa1
- Late Pleisticene Humans Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South Africa1
- Dating, Archaeology and Human Fossils from the Middle Stone Age Levels of Die Kelders, South Africa1
- Faunal Evidence for Prehistoric Herder-Forager Activites at Kasteelberg, Western Cape Province, South Africa1
- The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River Mouth in South Africa1
- Later Stone Age Subsistence at Byeneskranskop, South Africa1
- A Preliinary Report on the Larger Mammals from the Boomplaas Stone age Cave Site, Cango Valley, Oudtshoorn District, South Africa1
- Excavations in the Buffelskoof Rock Shelter near Calitzdorp, Southern Cape1
Each of the 17 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 content2
Picture of Galerella
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Sara&Joachim
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Galerella sanguinea · USNM:MAMM:USNM 469878
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Galerella”
- 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 itHerpestidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1864