Phlaocyon mariae
Phlaocyon mariae is an extinct species of the genus Phlaocyon, belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae and tribe Phlaocyonini, a canid which inhabited central western North America from the Miocene living 20.6–16.3 Ma, and existed for approximately 4.3 million years.
No picture of Phlaocyon mariae 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 Phlaocyon mariae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhlaocyonPBDB
- 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 most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phlaocyon mariae 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
1 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
1 formation
- Runningwater Formation · Hemingford Group1
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The named rock units Phlaocyon mariae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phlaocyon mariae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Phlaocyon mariae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aletomeryx gracilis1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Alligator mcgrewi1 site
- Cynarctoides acridens1 site
- Daphoenodon (Borocyon) niobrarensis1 site
- Desmocyon matthewi1 site
- Ectopocynus simplicidens1 site
- Michenia1 site
- Oxydactylus longipes1 site
- Palaeogale minuta1 site
- Phlaocyon leucosteus1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
- Schizodontomys amnicolus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phlaocyon mariae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Phlaocyon mariae 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 Phlaocyon mariae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phlaocyon mariae 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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What may have been alongside itPhlaocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang et al. 1999