Paradaphoenus

Paradaphoenus is a physically small amphicyonid that inhabited North America from the Early Oligocene to the Middle Miocene, 33.3—15.97 Ma, existing for approximately 17 million years. Fossils have been found at Haystack, Oregon, Banner County, Nebraska, Dawes County, Nebraska, and Sheep Mtn, South Dakota.

No picture of Paradaphoenus 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 Paradaphoenus, 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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31.8 Mya18.5 Mya34.4 Mya15.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Paradaphoenus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

16 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

John Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.59°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.49°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 41.66°N, 103.72°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°W

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The named rock units Paradaphoenus 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.

Paradaphoenus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Paradaphoenus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Paradaphoenus, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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 Paradaphoenus 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 Paradaphoenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paradaphoenus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wortman and Matthew 1899