Tungurictis

Tungurictis is an extinct genus of hyaenids containing two described species that lived in East Asia during the Early and Middle Miocene, 17–12 million years ago. The oldest known species, Tungurictis peignei, lived from 17–14 Ma, and was ancestral to the type species, Tungurictis spocki. T. spocki originated in the Middle Miocene and lived until 12 Ma in China. Specimens of both species have been discovered in China, with the type species being known from the Tunggur Formation of Inner Mongolia, and T. peignei from the Junggar Basin in the Xinjiang Upper Autonomous Region. Tungurictis is one of the earliest genera of Hyaenidae, alongside other Early Miocene hyaenids Plioviverrops and Protictitherium.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenidae
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 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Tungurictis 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

3 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

2 formations

Beglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EXianshuihe — 43.65°N, 112.66°E

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The named rock units Tungurictis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tungurictis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tungurictis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tungurictis, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 content0

No picture of Tungurictis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Tungurictis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Colbert 1939