Phlaocyon minor

Phlaocyon minor is an extinct species of canid mammal known from the Miocene-Oligocene of the United States

No picture of Phlaocyon minor 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 minor, 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 least 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.1 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 12 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.1 Mya18.5 Mya30 Mya15.8 Mya

12 occurrences of Phlaocyon minor 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

12 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

6 formations

Marsland — 42.10°N, 105.00°WMarsland — 42.00°N, 104.20°WMarsland — 42.62°N, 104.40°WMarsland — 43.00°N, 104.50°WRosebud — 43.18°N, 102.30°WRosebud — 43.30°N, 102.50°WGering — 43.00°N, 104.50°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOakville — 30.10°N, 96.10°W

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The named rock units Phlaocyon minor 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.

Phlaocyon minor and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phlaocyon minor and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Phlaocyon minor, 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

Each of the 12 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

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No picture of Phlaocyon minor 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 minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phlaocyon minor 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

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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. (Matthew 1907)