Sansanosmilus

Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- BarbourofelinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.75 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
11 occurrences of Sansanosmilus 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sansanosmilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sansanosmilus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sansanosmilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
352 taxa- Micromeryx flourensianus4 sites
- Aceratherium3 sites
- Amphicyon major3 sites
- Cervidae3 sites
- Copemys3 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum3 sites
- Dicerorhinus3 sites
- Martes3 sites
- Megacricetodon minor3 sites
- Miotragocerus3 sites
- Palaeortyx gallica3 sites
- Paraglirulus werenfelsi3 sites
- Plesiodimylus chantrei3 sites
- Pseudailurus3 sites
- Rhinocerotidae3 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai3 sites
- Tetralophodon longirostris3 sites
- Aceratherium incisivum2 sites
- Alopecocyon2 sites
- Chelydropsis murchisoni2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Cricetodon2 sites
- Cricetodon sansaniensis2 sites
- Dicrocerus elegans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Sansanosmilus, 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
10 references- New remains of Barbourofelidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Miocene of Southern Germany: implications for the history of barbourofelid migrations2
- Rodents, insectivores and chiropterans (Mammalia) from the late Aragonian of Can Missert (Middle Miocene, Vallès-Penedès Basin, Spain)1
- Los yacimientos de vertebrados continentales del Aragoniense superior (Mioceno medio) de Toril, Cuenca de Calatayud-Daroca1
- Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium1
- Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia)1
- The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation1
- Les carnivores (mammifères) du Néogène de Höwenegg/Hegau, Baden-Württemberg1
- Nuevos datos sobre los carnivoros de Los Valles de Fuentidueña (Segovia)1
- Miocene mammals from Jiulongkou, Ci Xian County, Hebei Province1
- Les mammiferes fossiles recoltes a Sansan au cours du XIXe siecle1
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. 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 Sansanosmilus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sansanosmilus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBarbourofelinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1929