Lyncodon patagonicus

The Patagonian weasel is a small mustelid that is the only member of the genus Lyncodon. Its geographic range is the Pampas of western Argentina and sections of Chile. An early mention of the animal is in the Journal of Syms Covington, who sailed with Charles Darwin on his epic voyage aboard HMS Beagle.

Lyncodon patagonicus

Butterfly voyages - Serge Ouachée · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
Patagonian weaselPBDB
Sits inside
LyncodonPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 389 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence420 ka–390 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390 ka–360 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240 ka–210 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210 ka–180 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150 ka–120 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120 ka–90 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90 ka–60 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60 ka–30 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences900 ka0 Mya

1 occurrence of Lyncodon patagonicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1 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

1 formation

Lujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°W

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

Lyncodon patagonicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lyncodon patagonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lyncodon patagonicus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Lyncodon patagonicus

Credit
Butterfly voyages - Serge Ouachée
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lyncodon patagonicus 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 itLyncodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Blainville 1842