Cyonasua
Cyonasua is an extinct genus of procyonid from the Late Miocene to Middle Pleistocene of South America. Fossils of Cyonasua have been found in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The oldest well-dated fossils of Cyonasua are approximately 7.3 million years old. Most fossils of Cyonasua are late Miocene to early late Pliocene in age, but a single early Pleistocene specimen indicates that members of this genus survived until at least 0.99 million years ago.
No picture of Cyonasua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyonasua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProcyoniniPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, carnivorePBDB, for Procyonidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Procyonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
23 occurrences of Cyonasua on record. 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
14 formations
- Cerro Azul Formation7
- Epecuén Formation2
- Pisco Formation2
- Huayquerías Formation1
- Ituzaingo Formation1
- Andalhuala Formation1
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The named rock units Cyonasua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
519 taxa- Cardiomys5 sites
- Palaeocavia5 sites
- Chorobates4 sites
- Doellotatus4 sites
- Hyperdidelphys4 sites
- Orthomyctera4 sites
- Paedotherium minor4 sites
- Promacrauchenia4 sites
- Tremacyllus impressus4 sites
- Tupinambis4 sites
- Xotodon4 sites
- Argyrolagus3 sites
- Brachytherium3 sites
- Brachytherium cuspidatum3 sites
- Chorobates villosissimus3 sites
- Doellotatus inornatus3 sites
- Dolicavia3 sites
- Glyptodontidae3 sites
- Hemihegetotherium achataleptum3 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)3 sites
- Lagostomus pretrichodactyla3 sites
- Lutreolina tracheia3 sites
- Macraucheniinae3 sites
- Macrochorobates3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cyonasua, 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
16 references- Cyonasua zettii sp. nov. (Procyonidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Central Argentina and a review of the fossil record of Cerro Azul Formation6
- Cyonasua (Carnivora, Procyonidae) from late Miocene of Peru shed light on the early dispersal of carnivorans in South America2
- On the flight capabilities and distribution of the giant Miocene bird Argentavis magnificens (Teratornithidae)2
- The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange1
- First record of a fossil procyonid (Cyonasua cf. C. pascuali), Mammalia, Procyonidae) in Bolivia, Tariquía Fm., Late Miocene1
- First record of fossil procyonid (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Uruguay1
- A controversial unit within the argentine neogene: the “Irenean” fauna1
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update1
- Carnivorans at the Great American Biotic Interchange: new discoveries from the northern neotropics1
- Late cenozoic mammals from the northwest of Argentina1
- First description of milk teeth of fossil South American procyonid from the lower Chapadmalalan (Late Miocene–Early Pliocene) of ‘‘Farola Monte Hermoso,’’ Argentina: paleoecological considerations1
- Vertebrate taphonomy in loess-palaeosol deposits: A case study from the late Miocene of Central Argentina1
Each of the 23 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. 4 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 content0
No picture of Cyonasua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyonasua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cyonasua”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProcyonini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1885