Martinogale

Martinogale is an extinct genus of skunk from the Late Miocene of central North America. There exist three accepted species, M. alveodens, M.chisoensis and M. faulli, which may have overlapped in range but occupied somewhat distinct moments of the Late Miocene. As well as the dubious Martinogale? nambiana.

No picture of Martinogale was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Martinogale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MephitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.0–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4 Mya4.7 Mya13 Mya900 ka

10 occurrences of Martinogale 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

10 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

4 formations

Dove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.40°N, 118.01°WBanta Shut-In — 29.27°N, 103.05°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WYounger Conglomerate — 43.66°N, 111.33°W

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The named rock units Martinogale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Martinogale and its relatives

Miocene

Where Martinogale and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Martinogale, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 content0

No picture of Martinogale was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Martinogale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Martinogale was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itMephitidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1930