Daphoenictis

Daphoenictis is an extinct cat-like genus of the family Amphicyonidae (bear-dogs), subfamily Daphoeninae, endemic to North America during the Late Eocene subepoch, existing for approximately 3.3 million years. Daphoenictis' geographical range was mid-western North America; from central Canada, to Texas, U.S. Only one species is known, Daphoenictis tedfordi.

No picture of Daphoenictis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Daphoenictis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 5.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 39.7 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 12 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40.2 Mya33.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Daphoenictis 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

12 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

3 formations

Chadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°W

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The named rock units Daphoenictis 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.

Daphoenictis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Daphoenictis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Daphoenictis, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 Daphoenictis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Daphoenictis 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Hunt 1974