Vormela

Vormela is a genus of mustelid which contains the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna), and at least one extinct species.

Vormela

Volker Röhl · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · 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
marbled polecatPBDB
Sits inside
IctonychinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.09 Mya129 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Vormela 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

5 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

1 formation

'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°E

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The named rock units Vormela has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vormela and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vormela and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Vormela, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Vormela

Credit
Volker Röhl
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vormela 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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What may have been alongside itIctonychinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blasius 1884