Sipalocyon

Sipalocyon is an extinct genus of hathliacynid sparassodont that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HathlyacininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 42 of 43 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 32 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya16.3 Mya56.8 Mya13 Mya

43 occurrences of Sipalocyon 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

43 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

Santa Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.68°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WCerro Bandera — 38.88°S, 69.47°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WCura-Mallín — 37.65°S, 71.23°WYahuarango — 12.65°S, 71.32°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Sipalocyon 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.

Sipalocyon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sipalocyon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Sipalocyon, 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

12 references

Each of the 43 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 Sipalocyon 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 Sipalocyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sipalocyon 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHathlyacininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887