Indarctos atticus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- IndarctosPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ursidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ursidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Indarctos atticus 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
4 occurrencesThese 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.
Indarctos atticus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Indarctos atticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Ictitherium3 sites
- Albanensia2 sites
- Alilepus2 sites
- Blarinella2 sites
- Brachyrhizomys2 sites
- Callosciurus2 sites
- Cernictis lufengensis2 sites
- Chilotherium2 sites
- Dorcabune2 sites
- Dorcatherium2 sites
- Dremomys2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Hylopetes2 sites
- Hyotherium2 sites
- Laccopithecus robustus2 sites
- Leptodontomys2 sites
- Machairodus2 sites
- Metacervulus2 sites
- Monosaulax2 sites
- Moschus2 sites
- Muntiacus2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Neocricetodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Indarctos atticus, 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
3 references- A preliminary report on Carnivora from the Ramapithecus locality, Lufeng, Yunnan2
- Some Pliocene mammalian fossils from Songshan 2 and 3 (Tianzhu, Gansu) and the Songshan Fauna1
- The Turolian fauna from the island of Samos, Greece1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Indarctos atticus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Indarctos atticus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIndarctos through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weithofer 1888