Metalopex merriami

No picture of Metalopex merriami 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 Metalopex merriami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetalopexPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Canidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.2–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12.5 Mya9.4 Mya19 Mya4.2 Mya

6 occurrences of Metalopex merriami 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

6 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

Thousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WMascall — 44.90°N, 120.20°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Metalopex merriami has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metalopex merriami and its relatives

Miocene

Where Metalopex merriami and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Metalopex merriami, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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 content0

No picture of Metalopex merriami 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 Metalopex merriami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metalopex merriami 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 itMetalopex through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tedford and Wang 2008