Acyon tricuspidatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcyonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Acyon tricuspidatus 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Acyon tricuspidatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acyon tricuspidatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acyon tricuspidatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Cladosictis patagonica4 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis4 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata3 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus3 sites
- Phorusrhacos longissimus3 sites
- Abderites meridionalis2 sites
- Acarechimys constans2 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus2 sites
- Acarechimys minutus2 sites
- Acaremys murinus2 sites
- Acdestis oweni2 sites
- Acrocyon sectorius2 sites
- Arctodictis munizi2 sites
- Eucholoeops ingens2 sites
- Microbiotherium patagonicum2 sites
- Microbiotherium tehuelchum2 sites
- Nesodon imbricatus2 sites
- Opisthodactylus patagonicus2 sites
- Palaeothentes aratae2 sites
- Palaeothentes intermedius2 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei2 sites
- Peltephilus pumilus2 sites
- Prozaedyus proximus2 sites
- Psilopterus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acyon tricuspidatus, 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- Review of the Hathlyacyninae, an extinct subfamily of South American "dog-like" marsupials3
- Paleoecology of the mammalian carnivores (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene)2
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Acyon tricuspidatus 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 Acyon tricuspidatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acyon tricuspidatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887