Genetta tigrina
Uncredited · 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
- Cape genetPBDB
- Sits inside
- GenettaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Viverridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Genetta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Genetta tigrina 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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
- Swartkrans Formation · Transvaal Group1
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The named rock units Genetta tigrina 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.
Genetta tigrina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Genetta tigrina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Felis lybica4 sites
- Lupulella mesomelas4 sites
- Orycteropus afer4 sites
- Panthera pardus4 sites
- Raphicerus campestris4 sites
- Acinonyx jubatus3 sites
- Crocuta crocuta3 sites
- Hystrix africaeaustralis3 sites
- Lutra capensis3 sites
- Mellivora capensis3 sites
- Oreotragus oreotragus3 sites
- Panthera leo3 sites
- Parahyaena brunnea3 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus3 sites
- Sylvicapra grimmia3 sites
- Taurotragus oryx3 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros3 sites
- Aepyceros melampus2 sites
- Alcelaphus buselaphus2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Caracal serval2 sites
- Cynictis penicillata2 sites
- Equus capensis2 sites
- Equus quagga burchelli2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Genetta tigrina, 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- Late Pleisticene Humans Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South Africa1
- Palaeoecology of the Pliocene and lower Pleistocene hominids of southern Africa: how good is the chronological and paleoenvironmental evidence?1
- Structure of Nylsrley Savanna1
- 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Genetta tigrina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Genetta tigrina 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 itGenetta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schreber 1776)