Mustelinae

Mustelinae is a subfamily of family Mustelidae, including weasels, ferrets, and minks.

Mustelinae

Needsmoreritalin · 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
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 least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 29 of 266 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 266 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 193 of 266 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 20 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 40 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 138 occurrences16.3 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

266 occurrences of Mustelinae 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

266 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

31 formations

Glenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WDeer Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WLoveland Loess — 40.50°N, 98.10°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WNawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°E

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The named rock units Mustelinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 224 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mustelinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mustelinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,703 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 199 sites for Mustelinae, 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

137 references

Each of the 266 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. 125 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Mustelinae

Credit
Needsmoreritalin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mustelinae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1817