Neogale frenata

The long-tailed weasel, also known as the bridled weasel, masked ermine, or big stoat, is a species of weasel found in North, Central, and South America. It is distinct from the short-tailed weasel, also known as a "stoat", a close relation in the genus Mustela that originated in Eurasia and crossed into North America some half million years ago; the two species are visually similar, having long, slender bodies and tails with short legs and a black tail tip.

Neogale frenata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
long-tailed weaselPBDB
Sits inside
NeogalePBDB
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 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 31 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 31 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Neogale frenata 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

31 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

5 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°W

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The named rock units Neogale frenata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neogale frenata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neogale frenata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

773 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Neogale frenata, 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

30 references

Each of the 31 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. 18 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

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Picture of Neogale frenata

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No 3D scan of Neogale frenata 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

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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. (Lichtenstein 1831)