Edaphocyon
No picture of Edaphocyon 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 Edaphocyon, 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 most 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Edaphocyon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Edaphocyon 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.
Edaphocyon and its relatives
MioceneWhere Edaphocyon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Brachypsalis2 sites
- Craterogale simus2 sites
- Leptarctus ancipidens2 sites
- Oligobunis2 sites
- Osbornodon scitulus2 sites
- Aletomeryx gracilis1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Ameiurus1 site
- Ammospermophilus1 site
- Amphictis timucua1 site
- Amphicyon galushai1 site
- Anchitheriomys stouti1 site
- Anolis1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Balearicinae1 site
- Basiliscus1 site
- Bassaricyonoides phyllismillerae1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Copemys1 site
- Cynarctoides acridens1 site
- Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum1 site
- Desmatippus tyleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Edaphocyon, 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- New procyonines from the Hemingfordian and Barstovian of the Gulf Coast and Nevada, including the first fossil record of the Potosini1
- Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at locations in the Castor Creek Member, Miocene Fleming Formation, Fort Polk, Louisiana1
- Tertiary Procyoninae (Mammalia: Carnivora) of North America1
- Miocene carnivores, Texas Coastal Plain1
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 content0
No picture of Edaphocyon 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 Edaphocyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Edaphocyon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProcyonini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1960