Amphicyon galushai
No picture of Amphicyon galushai was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amphicyon galushai itself, so it was not used. 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 Amphicyon galushai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphicyonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Amphicyonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Amphicyonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Amphicyon galushai 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
12 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Amphicyon galushai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphicyon galushai and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amphicyon galushai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Cynarctoides acridens6 sites
- Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum5 sites
- Merychyus elegans4 sites
- Leptocyon vulpinus3 sites
- Merycochoerus proprius3 sites
- Metatomarctus canavus3 sites
- Anchitheriomys2 sites
- Menoceras barbouri2 sites
- Mesoscalops scopelotemos2 sites
- Oreolagus nebrascensis2 sites
- Aletomeryx gracilis1 site
- Ambystoma minshalli1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Anchitheriomyinae1 site
- Anchitheriomys stouti1 site
- Andrias matthewi1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Balearicinae1 site
- Barbouromeryx1 site
- Bassariscinae indet.1 site
- Brachyerix macrotis1 site
- Brachypsalis1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Bursagnathus aterosseus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Amphicyon galushai, 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- Intercontinental migration of large mammalian carnivores: earliest occurrence of the Old World beardog Amphicyon (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) in North America11
- New material of Moropus (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae, Schizotheriinae) from the early Hemingfordian Rose Creek Member of the John Day Formation, Oregon, U.S.A.1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Amphicyon galushai was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amphicyon galushai itself, so it was not used.
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 Amphicyon galushai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphicyon galushai was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itAmphicyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hunt 2003