Viverravus minutus

No picture of Viverravus minutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Viverravus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ViverravusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Viverravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Viverravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.5 Mya39.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Viverravus minutus 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

18 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

5 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°W"Sheep Pass" — 39.00°N, 114.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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

Viverravus minutus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Viverravus minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Viverravus minutus, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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 Viverravus minutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itViverravus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wortman 1901