Viverra zibetha
The large Indian civet is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. The global population is thought to be decreasing due to hunting and trapping driven by the demand for bushmeat.
tontantravel , Kaeng Krachan national park tours · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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- Also called
- large Indian civetPBDB
- Sits inside
- ViverraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Viverra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Viverra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Viverra zibetha 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Viverra zibetha and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Viverra zibetha and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Arctonyx collaris4 sites
- Cuon4 sites
- Hystrix4 sites
- Macaca4 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis4 sites
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca3 sites
- Felis3 sites
- Hipposideros3 sites
- Paguma larvata3 sites
- Panthera tigris3 sites
- Rusa3 sites
- Stegodon insignis3 sites
- Sus3 sites
- Sus scrofa3 sites
- Tapirus (Megatapirus) augustus3 sites
- Ursus thibetanus3 sites
- Belomys2 sites
- Bubalus2 sites
- Capricornis sumatraensis2 sites
- Caprinae2 sites
- Cervus unicolor2 sites
- Crocuta crocuta2 sites
- Eothenomys2 sites
- Hapalomys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Viverra zibetha, 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
4 references- Antemortem trauma and survival in the late Middle Pleistocene human cranium from Maba, South China1
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
- First discovery of Megalovis guangxiensis and Alligator cf. sinensis in Guangdong1
Each of the 4 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 Viverra zibetha
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- tontantravel , Kaeng Krachan national park tours
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Viverra zibetha 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itViverra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758