Xenictis
No picture of Xenictis 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 Xenictis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MustelidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Xenictis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene60%
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.
Xenictis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Xenictis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Mimomys6 sites
- Beremendia fissidens5 sites
- Mustela palermina5 sites
- Bovidae4 sites
- Citellus4 sites
- Lagotherium4 sites
- Prospalax4 sites
- Sorex runtonensis4 sites
- Talpa fossilis4 sites
- Ursus4 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Bufo3 sites
- Cervus3 sites
- Chiroptera3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Gazellospira3 sites
- Lynx3 sites
- Myodes3 sites
- Myotis3 sites
- Ophidia3 sites
- Petenyia hungarica3 sites
- Rana3 sites
- Testudo3 sites
- Alopex praeglacialis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Xenictis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Xenictis 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 Xenictis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenictis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMustelidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1938