Viverravus

Viverravus

W. D. Matthew · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
ViverravidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Viverravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Viverravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 43 of 346 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 303 of 346 occurrencesEocene61–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 17 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 23 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 38 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 38 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 38 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 38 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 38 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 32 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 11 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 11 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 11 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 10 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57.5 Mya45.9 Mya61.4 Mya37.2 Mya

346 occurrences of Viverravus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

346 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

22 formations

Willwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.89°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.72°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.75°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.05°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 109.12°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WLignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°EPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WMargaret — 78.50°N, 82.00°WFarisita — 37.80°N, 105.10°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°W"Sheep Pass" — 39.00°N, 114.10°WTepee Trail — 43.70°N, 108.70°WGuanjuato Red Conglomerate — 21.00°N, 101.30°WSilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WNomogen — 43.15°N, 111.58°EBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°E

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The named rock units Viverravus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Viverravus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Viverravus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

936 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 296 sites for Viverravus, and this reads 240 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

56 references

Each of the 346 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. 44 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 content1

Picture of Viverravus

Credit
W. D. Matthew
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Viverravus 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 itViverravidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1872