Semigenetta

Semigenetta is an extinct genus of viverrid. It lived in Europe, China, and Thailand in the Miocene, and was very similar to the extant genus Genetta, but lacked a molar that Genetta still possesses.

No picture of Semigenetta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Semigenetta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ViverrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Viverridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Viverridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.9 Mya11.1 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Semigenetta 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

21 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

3 formations

Xiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°E

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The named rock units Semigenetta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Semigenetta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Semigenetta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

691 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Semigenetta, 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

19 references

Each of the 21 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Semigenetta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Semigenetta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Helbing 1927