Proviverrinae

Proviverrinae is an extinct clade of placental mammals within superfamily Hyaenodontoidea in extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe. The clade consisted of at least 20 genera and 30 species, and were the most diverse group of hyaenodonts in Europe until the Late Eocene. Their decline was thought to have been the result with of competition with carnivorans, hyaenodontines, and hyainailourines. The last proviverrine would go extinct at the end of the Eocene during the Grande Coupure.

Proviverrinae

Rütimeyer L. · Public Domain · 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
HyaenodontoideaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 27 of 28 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56 Mya41.03 Mya59.7 Mya37.2 Mya

28 occurrences of Proviverrinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

28 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

7 formations

Uinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WLignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°EMazaterón — 41.53°N, 2.12°WCalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°ECalcaire de Ventenac — 43.08°N, 2.50°EJbel Guersif — 31.61°N, 5.66°WCreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°W

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The named rock units Proviverrinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proviverrinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Proviverrinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

488 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Proviverrinae, 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

16 references

Each of the 28 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. 4 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 Proviverrinae

Credit
Rütimeyer L.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proviverrinae 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

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 itHyaenodontoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlosser 1886)