Ictitherium

Ictitherium is an extinct genus belonging to the family Hyaenidae and the subfamily Ictitheriinae erected by Trouessart in 1897. Ictitherium lived throughout Eurasia during the Late Miocene.

Ictitherium

Jonathan Chen · 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
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 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 79 occurrencesMiocene — about 70 of 79 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 79 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 79 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11.63 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

79 occurrences of Ictitherium 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

79 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

13 formations

Ravin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EGusar suite — 39.50°N, 67.60°ETavildara — 38.50°N, 69.50°EPoate — 35.71°N, 111.66°ELantian — 34.15°N, 109.33°ETuglu — 40.61°N, 33.63°ELithostratigraphic Unit B — 39.42°N, 22.65°EVathylakkos — 40.78°N, 22.66°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.75°E

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The named rock units Ictitherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ictitherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ictitherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

771 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Ictitherium, 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

39 references

Each of the 79 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. 27 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 Ictitherium

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

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Ictitherium viverrinum · AMNH:F:AM:147032

The description on this site

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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. Wagner 1848