Sipalocyon gracilis

Sipalocyon gracilis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 7.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 33 occurrencesMiocene23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.5 Mya15 Mya

33 occurrences of Sipalocyon gracilis 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

33 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

2 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°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°W

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The named rock units Sipalocyon gracilis 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.

Sipalocyon gracilis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sipalocyon gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Sipalocyon gracilis, 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

7 references

Each of the 33 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 content2

Picture of Sipalocyon gracilis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Sipalocyon gracilis · AMNH:FM:9254

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

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