Helogale

Helogale is a genus of the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It consists of two species and 12 subspecies:

Helogale

Adrian Pingstone · Public Domain · 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
dwarf 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 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10.0–9.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6 Mya – 2.58 Mya12.1 Mya1.3 Mya

10 occurrences of Helogale on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

10 occurrences

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

5 formations

Shungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.01°N, 36.00°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°E

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The named rock units Helogale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Helogale, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 content1

Picture of Helogale

Credit
Adrian Pingstone
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Helogale 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHerpestidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1861