Machairodus aphanistus

Machairodus aphanistus

PePeEfe · 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
MachairodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 17 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–6.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

19 occurrences of Machairodus aphanistus 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

19 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

2 formations

Muluk — 30.42°N, 30.25°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°E

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The named rock units Machairodus aphanistus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Machairodus aphanistus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Machairodus aphanistus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Machairodus aphanistus, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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 Machairodus aphanistus

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

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Machairodus aphanistus · nhmuk:pal:PV OR 37356

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.

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What may have been alongside itMachairodus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kaup 1833)