Borophagus

Borophagus is an extinct genus of the subfamily Borophaginae, a group of canids endemic to North America from the Middle Miocene to the early Pleistocene (12—2Mya).

Borophagus

Xiaoming Wang Is a corresponding author, Stuart C White, Mairin Balisi, Jacob Biewer, Julia Sankey, Dennis Garber, Z… · CC BY 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
BorophaginaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 151 occurrencesMiocene — about 90 of 151 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 44 of 151 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 17 of 151 occurrences24–23 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 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.9–3.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.4–1.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences9.4 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

151 occurrences of Borophagus 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

151 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

43 formations

Peace River — 27.70°N, 81.85°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WOgallala — 35.70°N, 102.30°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WOgallala — 37.20°N, 99.90°WOgallala — 35.68°N, 99.60°WOgallala — 35.54°N, 99.86°WGracias — 14.60°N, 88.50°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WYorktown — 35.40°N, 76.80°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPopotosa — 34.80°N, 106.90°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.94°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WLong Pine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WGoodnight Beds — 35.00°N, 101.30°WPoison Creek — 43.00°N, 118.00°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WPunchbowl — 34.00°N, 118.20°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.80°WBedrock Spring — 34.80°N, 117.00°W

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The named rock units Borophagus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Borophagus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Borophagus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,359 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Borophagus, 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

50 references

Each of the 151 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. 38 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 Borophagus

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Xiaoming Wang Is a corresponding author, Stuart C White, Mairin Balisi, Jacob Biewer, Julia Sankey, Dennis Garber, Z…
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CC BY 4.0
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Structured light scan

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Specimen
Borophagus sp. · ucmp:v:8139

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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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 itBorophaginae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1892)