Dormaalocyon latouri

Charlène Letenneur (MNHN) and Pascale Golinvaux (RBINS) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Sits inside
- DormaalocyonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dormaalocyon latouri 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Dormaalocyon latouri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dormaalocyon latouri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dormaalocyon latouri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
166 taxa- Anguinae3 sites
- Arfia gingerichi3 sites
- Diplocynodon3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Gracilocyon solei3 sites
- Teilhardina belgica3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Apatemys2 sites
- Asiatosuchus2 sites
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons2 sites
- Boidae2 sites
- Cordylidae2 sites
- Diacodexis gigasei2 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis2 sites
- Eolacerta2 sites
- Euromys2 sites
- Geiseltaliellus2 sites
- Glyptosaurinae2 sites
- Iguanidae2 sites
- Landenodon woutersi2 sites
- Leptacodon2 sites
- Macrocranion vandebroeki2 sites
- Melanosaurini2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dormaalocyon latouri, 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- The earliest Eocene mammal fauna of the Erquelinnes Sand Member near the French-Belgian border1
- The “miacids” (Carnivoraformes, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene locality of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France); first occurrence of Vassacyon in Europe1
- A new genus of "miacid" carnivoran from the earliest Eocene of Europe and North America1
- Nuevos mamíferos del Eoceno Inferior de Silveirinha (Baixo Mondego, Portugal)1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Dormaalocyon latouri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Charlène Letenneur (MNHN) and Pascale Golinvaux (RBINS)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dormaalocyon latouri 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDormaalocyon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quinet 1966)