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Wolverine — Gulo gulo

SAGE Museum Deep Time scientific dossier

Artist / Creator

Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de (Henri-Marie Ducrotay)

Date / Period

Pleistocene — Irvingtonian · Pleistocene, Irvingtonian for the documented Smithsonian fossil.

Object Type

mounted skeleton

Medium

historic_illustration

About This Object

Geologic period: Pleistocene — Irvingtonian

Age: Pleistocene, Irvingtonian for the documented Smithsonian fossil.

Feeding: Carnivorous and scavenging.

Evidence: The skeleton directly identifies the species and documents its past distribution.

Why it matters: The wolverine reminds visitors that some Ice Age species survived into the modern world while their geographic ranges changed.

Plain Language Identity: The living wolverine species represented by a Pleistocene fossil.

What You Are Looking At: A fossil skeleton of Gulo gulo.

Ecosystem: Pleistocene North American terrestrial ecosystem.

Source Urls: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour/current-exhibits/deep-time-virtual-tour-fossil-list; https://www.si.edu/object/gulo-gulo-linnaeus-1758:nmnhpaleobiology_3579937

Find Location: Maryland, United States for documented Smithsonian material.

Enrichment Method: SAGE curated research pass; title + scientific name + source scene matched; chronology and taxonomy conflicts retained rather than silently corrected; evidence separated from inference

Scientific name: Gulo gulo

Evidence / representation: historical_anatomical_illustration

Why It Is In This SAGE Exhibit

historical_anatomical_illustration

After the Dinosaurs: Mammals, Ice Ages and the World We Inherited.

Provenance

Smithsonian Deep Time source scene: A Giant Deer and a Bison Mummy

Visual source institution: Wikimedia Commons

Exhibition History

Included in the SAGE Museum Dinosaurs & Deep Time staging exhibit.

Collection & Credit

Media license: Public domain

Subjects & Themes

Gulo gulo Pleistocene — Irvingtonian mounted skeleton A Giant Deer and a Bison Mummy After the Dinosaurs

ORIGINAL COLLECTION SOURCE

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