Cuon

Cuon

en:User:Kalyanvarma (?) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
dholePBDB
Sits inside
CanidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–560 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences560 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences12.5 Mya129 ka16.8 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Cuon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

24 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

2 formations

Lishi — 34.17°N, 109.25°EValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°W

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The named rock units Cuon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cuon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

397 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Cuon, 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

20 references

Each of the 24 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Cuon

Credit
en:User:Kalyanvarma (?)
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cuon alpinus adustus · FMNH:Mammals:33500

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

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What may have been alongside itCanidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hodgson 1838