Vulpes vulpes

Vulpes vulpes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
red foxPBDB
Sits inside
VulpesPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Vulpes
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Vulpes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.55 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 83 of 98 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 14 of 98 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–945 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence945 ka–810 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence810 ka–675 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences675 ka–540 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences540 ka–405 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences405 ka–270 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences270 ka–135 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences135 ka–0 Mya — about 61 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka4.05 Mya0 Mya

98 occurrences of Vulpes vulpes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

98 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

5 formations

Unterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°EAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WFloral — 52.20°N, 106.70°WForest Bed — 52.85°N, 1.47°EShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°W

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The named rock units Vulpes vulpes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vulpes vulpes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vulpes vulpes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Vulpes vulpes, 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

77 references

Each of the 98 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. 65 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Vulpes vulpes

Credit
ClaudiaTen
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Vulpes vulpes · NMV:Mammalogy:C25075

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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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 itVulpes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)