Brachyrhynchocyon

Brachyrhynchocyon is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore, which belonged to the family Amphicyonidae of the suborder Caniformia.

Brachyrhynchocyon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DaphoeninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 29 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesOligocene37–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.5 Mya31.3 Mya

30 occurrences of Brachyrhynchocyon on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

30 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

7 formations

Chadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.00°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCook Ranch — 45.00°N, 112.80°W"Titanotherium Beds" — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°W

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The named rock units Brachyrhynchocyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyrhynchocyon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brachyrhynchocyon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Brachyrhynchocyon, 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

11 references

Each of the 30 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 Brachyrhynchocyon

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No 3D scan of Brachyrhynchocyon 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDaphoeninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott and Jepsen 1936