Sinicuon dubius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinicuonPBDB
- 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 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sinicuon dubius on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene75%
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
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The named rock units Sinicuon dubius 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.
Sinicuon dubius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sinicuon dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Felis2 sites
- Aepyosciurus orientalis1 site
- Ailuropoda microta1 site
- Arctonyx1 site
- Atherurus1 site
- Bahomys sp.1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Canis longdanensis1 site
- Canis teilhardi1 site
- Caprinae1 site
- Cervavitus fenqii1 site
- Chasmaporthetes1 site
- Coelodonta nihowanensis1 site
- Cynailurus1 site
- Dorcabune1 site
- Eirictis robusta1 site
- Equus eisenmannae1 site
- Equus yunnanensis1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Gigantopithecus1 site
- Hemibos gracilis1 site
- Hesperotherium sp.1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Hippopotamodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sinicuon dubius, 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- Earliest record of Sinicuon in Zanda Basin, southern Tibet and implications for hypercarnivores in cold environments3
- Early Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from Longdan, Dongxiang, Gansu, China1
Each of the 4 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 content1
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Sinicuon dubius · ivpp:v:18925
No picture of Sinicuon dubius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sinicuon dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSinicuon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Teilhard de Chardin 1940)