Canis megamastoides
No picture of Canis megamastoides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Canis megamastoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CanisPBDB
- 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 most 1.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.55 Mya and 2.245 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Canis megamastoides on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene74%
- Pleistocene26%
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.
Canis megamastoides and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Canis megamastoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acinonyx pardinensis1 site
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Arvernoceros ardei1 site
- Baranogale antiqua1 site
- Canis etruscus1 site
- Chasmaporthetes lunensis1 site
- Croizetoceros ramosus1 site
- Enhydrictis ardea1 site
- Galemys1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Homotherium crenatidens1 site
- Leptobos1 site
- Lutra bravardi1 site
- Lynx issiodorensis1 site
- Mammut borsoni1 site
- Megantereon megantereon1 site
- Metacervocerus pardinensis1 site
- Mimomys1 site
- Pliocrocuta perrieri1 site
- Pliotragus ardeus1 site
- Praeelaphus perrieri1 site
- Procapreolus cusanus1 site
- Stephanorhinus etruscus1 site
- Stephanorhinus jeanvireti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Canis megamastoides, 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 1 occurrence 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 Canis megamastoides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Canis megamastoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Canis megamastoides 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 itCanis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1842