Hyaenictitherium

Hyaenictitherium is an extinct genus of hyaenids that lived throughout Africa, Asia, and possibly Europe during the Late Miocene and Pliocene. The type species, H. hyaenoides, was similar in size to a striped hyena, whereas the smaller H. minimum was close in size to a jackal. Hyaenictitherium may represent a paraphyletic group.

Hyaenictitherium

Jonathan Chen · CC BY 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
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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 6.965 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 12 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.8–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.965 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Hyaenictitherium 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

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

Sahabi — 30.14°N, 20.75°ESahabi — 30.00°N, 20.00°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°WNawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EHewangjia — 35.76°N, 103.09°ELantian — 34.15°N, 109.33°ETriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°EMagabet — 0.67°N, 35.83°E

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The named rock units Hyaenictitherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyaenictitherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hyaenictitherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hyaenictitherium, 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

14 references

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. 2 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 Hyaenictitherium

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Hyaenictitherium namaquensis · must:MPUR V. 2001

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

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 itHyaenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1938