Miomustela
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MustelidaePBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Miomustela 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
11 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
6 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Fleming Formation3
- Box Butte Formation1
- Wood Mountain Formation1
- Arikaree Formation1
- Crowder Formation1
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The named rock units Miomustela has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Miomustela and its relatives
MioceneWhere Miomustela and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
264 taxa- Geomyoidea5 sites
- Antrozous4 sites
- Leptocyon vafer4 sites
- Nototamias4 sites
- Parvericius montanus4 sites
- Pseudoparablastomeryx4 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi4 sites
- Aepycamelus3 sites
- Alluvisorex3 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni3 sites
- Camelidae3 sites
- Charina prebottae3 sites
- Copemys3 sites
- Copemys longidens3 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis3 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis3 sites
- Eucastor tortus3 sites
- Eumeces3 sites
- Gerrhonotus3 sites
- Gomphotherium3 sites
- Hesperolagomys fluviatilis3 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus3 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni3 sites
- Metechinus amplior3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Miomustela, 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
7 references- Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at locations in the Castor Creek Member, Miocene Fleming Formation, Fort Polk, Louisiana3
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska3
- Terrestrial carnivores, artiodactyls, perissodactyls, and proboscideans of the Fort Polk Miocene sites of Louisiana1
- Biostratigraphic relationships of Tertiary small vertebrates from Cajon Valley, San Bernardino County, California1
- Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming1
- Stratigraphy of the Box Butte Formation, Nebraska1
- The Wood Mountain fauna: an upper Miocene mammalian assemblage from southern Saskatchewan1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Miomustela was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Miomustela, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miomustela was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itMustelidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1930