Spilogale

Spotted skunks are species of skunk belonging to the genus Spilogale.

Spilogale

Originals: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , A. D. Cuarón, F. Reid, K. Helgen, R. Timm, Global Mammal Assesment t… · 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
MephitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 6 of 67 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 51 of 67 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 10 of 67 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Spilogale 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

67 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

10 formations

Rexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WSeymour — 33.80°N, 99.70°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°W

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The named rock units Spilogale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spilogale and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Spilogale and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

964 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Spilogale, 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

48 references

Each of the 67 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. 36 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 content3

Picture of Spilogale

Credit
Originals: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , A. D. Cuarón, F. Reid, K. Helgen, R. Timm, Global Mammal Assesment t…
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Spilogale putorius · UF:mammals:14378

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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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 itMephitidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1865