Cormocyon copei

No picture of Cormocyon copei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cormocyon copei itself, so it was not used. 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 Cormocyon copei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CormocyonPBDB
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 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24.7 Mya – 23.04 Mya30 Mya4.8 Mya

10 occurrences of Cormocyon copei on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

10 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

4 formations

John Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WTroublesome — 40.20°N, 106.10°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WCrystal River — 29.75°N, 82.63°W

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The named rock units Cormocyon copei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cormocyon copei and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Cormocyon copei and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cormocyon copei, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 content0

No picture of Cormocyon copei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cormocyon copei itself, so it was not used.

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 Cormocyon copei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cormocyon copei 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.

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What may have been alongside itCormocyon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang and Tedford 1992