Aelurodon

Aelurodon is an extinct canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae which lived from the Barstovian land mammal age of the middle Miocene to the late Miocene epoch. Aelurodon existed for approximately 10.7 million years.

Aelurodon

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
AelurodontinaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Canidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 165 occurrencesMiocene — about 164 of 165 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 165 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 17 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.9–7.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.2–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya9.4 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

165 occurrences of Aelurodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

165 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

24 formations

Valentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WAsh Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.30°N, 102.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.50°N, 103.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 99.70°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 102.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WBarstow — 35.05°N, 117.07°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WOgallala — 35.70°N, 102.30°WOgallala — 35.40°N, 101.40°WFleming — 30.59°N, 94.91°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WTemblor — 36.10°N, 120.40°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WSand Canyon — 42.80°N, 103.10°WRepublican River — 39.70°N, 99.10°WCoetas — 35.40°N, 101.90°WLaverne — 36.80°N, 100.50°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WMadison Valley — 45.93°N, 111.29°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WSanta Fe — 36.50°N, 107.00°Wreferred Chamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSixmile Creek — 45.90°N, 112.17°WDove Spring — 35.40°N, 118.01°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WLoup Fork — 42.70°N, 102.50°W

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The named rock units Aelurodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aelurodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aelurodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

634 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 158 sites for Aelurodon, 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

29 references

Each of the 165 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. 17 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 content3

Picture of Aelurodon

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Aelurodon taxoides · YPM:VP:10635

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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 itAelurodontina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1858