Hyaenictis
No picture of Hyaenictis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 Hyaenictis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyaenidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 774 ka.
16 occurrences of Hyaenictis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
16 occurrences- Miocene66%
- Pliocene28%
- Pleistocene6%
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
9 formations
- Varswater Formation2
- Lukeino Formation2
- Swartkrans Formation · Transvaal Group1
- Nawata Formation1
- Nawata or Nachukui Formation1
- Nachukui Formation1
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The named rock units Hyaenictis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hyaenictis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hyaenictis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
427 taxa- Gazella7 sites
- Genetta7 sites
- Aves6 sites
- Ceratotherium6 sites
- Cercopithecidae6 sites
- Dinofelis6 sites
- Nyanzachoerus6 sites
- Reduncini6 sites
- Alcelaphini5 sites
- Bovini5 sites
- Ictitherium5 sites
- Ikelohyaena abronia5 sites
- Madoqua5 sites
- Orycteropus5 sites
- Raphicerus5 sites
- Viverra leakeyi5 sites
- Anancus kenyensis4 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi4 sites
- Brachypotherium4 sites
- Colobinae4 sites
- Elephantidae4 sites
- Eurygnathohippus4 sites
- Hipparion4 sites
- Hippotragini4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Hyaenictis, 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
12 references- Carnivores from the Late Miocene and basal Pliocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya3
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa3
- A new protictithere from the late Miocene hominoid locality Ravin de la Pluie of Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece)1
- Mio-Pliocene Mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia1
- The Swartkrans Palaeontological Research Project in perspective: results and conclusions1
- Notiz über Säugetierreste von der Insel Samos in der Sammlung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums Hamburg (Notes on mammals from Samos Island in the collection of the geologic-paleontologic Institute and Museum of Hamburg)1
- Mammalian fossils of Samos and Pikermi, Part 1. The Turolian rodents and insectivores of Samos1
- Les carnivores du Miocene de Beni Mellal (Maroc)1
- The Pliocene fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa1
- The Late Cenozoic Carnivora of the South-Western Cape Province1
- Présence de Varanidae (Reptilia, Sauria) dans le Miocène de Catalogne. Considérations sur l’histoire de la famille1
- Animaux Fossiles et Géologie de l'Attique1
Each of the 16 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Hyaenictis graeca · AMPG:2510
No picture of Hyaenictis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 Hyaenictis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itHyaenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaudry 1861