Stenoplesictis cayluxi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenoplesictisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Stenoplesictis cayluxi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Stenoplesictis cayluxi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stenoplesictis cayluxi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Stenoplesictis cayluxi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Anguini7 sites
- Cordylidae6 sites
- Amphisbaenidae5 sites
- Pseudeumeces cadurcensis5 sites
- Coluber cadurci4 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus4 sites
- Lophiomeryx chalaniati4 sites
- Nimravus intermedius4 sites
- Peratherium elegans4 sites
- Tetracus nanus4 sites
- Bachitherium curtum3 sites
- Bransateryx vireti3 sites
- Bransatoglis3 sites
- Dinailurictis bonali3 sites
- Ergilemys3 sites
- Geotrypus acutidentatus3 sites
- Glamys priscus3 sites
- Lacertidae3 sites
- Neurogymnurus cayluxi3 sites
- Ophisaurus roqueprunensis3 sites
- Palaeosciurus goti3 sites
- Platyspondylia3 sites
- Pseudocricetodon montalbanensis3 sites
- Schizogliravus bruijni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Stenoplesictis cayluxi, 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
3 references- The genus Stenoplesictis Filhol (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Oligocene deposits of the Phosphorites of Quercy, France7
- Mammals from the Cyrena Beds of Offenbach (Hesse) – Biostratigraphic correlation1
- Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European Creodont Mammal from MP22 of Espenhain (Germany)1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Stenoplesictis cayluxi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stenoplesictis cayluxi 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 itStenoplesictis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Filhol 1880