Liodontia furlongi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiodontiaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Liodontia furlongi 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Liodontia furlongi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liodontia furlongi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Liodontia furlongi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Camelidae3 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Dinohippus spectans2 sites
- Dipoides stirtoni2 sites
- Mammut2 sites
- Pliotaxidea nevadensis2 sites
- Scapanus proceridens2 sites
- Tayassuinae2 sites
- Teleoceras2 sites
- Amebelodon1 site
- Aphelops malacorhinus1 site
- Caninae1 site
- Chalicotheriidae1 site
- Citellus (Otospermophilus) argonautus1 site
- Dinohippus1 site
- Diprionomys minimus1 site
- Diprionomys parvus1 site
- Epicyon saevus1 site
- Eucyon davisi1 site
- Hesperogaulus1 site
- Hesperogaulus wilsoni1 site
- Hipparionini1 site
- Hypolagus vetus1 site
- Hystricops browni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Liodontia furlongi, 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
2 references- Pliocene mammals of southeast Oregon and adjacent Idaho2
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Liodontia furlongi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Liodontia furlongi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLiodontia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gazin 1932)