Canis

Canis is a genus of the Caninae which includes multiple extant species, such as wolves, dogs, coyotes, and golden jackals. Species of this genus are distinguished by their moderate to large size, their massive, well-developed skulls and dentition, long legs, and comparatively short ears and tails.

Canis

Chris Muiden at Dutch Wikipedia No machine-readable author provided. Tobycat assumed (based on copyright claims). Tim… · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
caninePBDB
Sits inside
CaninaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Canidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 708 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 708 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 96 of 708 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 502 of 708 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.0–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.0–4.0 Mya — about 29 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 43 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 79 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 121 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 424 occurrences18.5 Mya11.7 ka30.1 Mya0 Mya

708 occurrences of Canis 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

708 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

74 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.22°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°E"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 27.00°N, 82.20°WKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EChapala — 20.30°N, 103.20°WGerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°ECrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCrooked Creek — 39.00°N, 98.20°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EKairubak suite — 38.35°N, 69.97°EKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EKairubak suite — 37.33°N, 68.97°ETarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WKingsdown — 37.05°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WTacubaya — 21.80°N, 102.30°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WTule — 34.51°N, 101.41°W

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The named rock units Canis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 539 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Canis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Canis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 617 sites for Canis, and this reads 240 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

368 references

Each of the 708 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. 356 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 Canis

Credit
Chris Muiden at Dutch Wikipedia No machine-readable author provided. Tobycat assumed (based on copyright claims). Tim…
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Canis lupus · msu:mr:36390

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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