Gulo
Searched as Gulo lucus lucus. The Paleobiology Database treats Gulo as the accepted name.
Gulo is a genus of carnivoran mammals in the family Mustelidae. It contains one extant species, the wolverine, as well as several extinct ones. Fossil evidence suggests that this genus appeared in North America and later spread to Eurasia during the Pliocene. Diagnostic traits include a strongly reduced P2, a robust P4 with three roots, and upper molars smaller than in other gulonines. Overall, the teeth are adapted for hypercarnivory.
William F. Wood · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Also called
- wolverinePBDB
- Sits inside
- GuloniniPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Gulo on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Gulo and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gulo and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
646 taxa- Microtus11 sites
- Rangifer tarandus10 sites
- Equus9 sites
- Lepus9 sites
- Myodes9 sites
- Ochotona9 sites
- Vulpes vulpes9 sites
- Canis lupus8 sites
- Canis7 sites
- Cervus7 sites
- Cricetus cricetus7 sites
- Pliomys7 sites
- Vulpes7 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus6 sites
- Bison6 sites
- Lagurus6 sites
- Ursus6 sites
- Allocricetus5 sites
- Beremendia fissidens5 sites
- Erignathus barbatus5 sites
- Marmota5 sites
- Mimomys5 sites
- Sorex5 sites
- Ursus arctos5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Gulo, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Gulo
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- William F. Wood
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Gulo”
- 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 itGulonini through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Storr 1780