Canis cedazoensis
Canis cedazoensis is an extinct species of smaller canid which was endemic to North America during the Pleistocene epoch, 1.8 Ma—300,000 years ago.

Noles1984 · 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- Sits inside
- CanisPBDB
- 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 most 1.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.4 Mya and 210 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Canis cedazoensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Canis cedazoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Canis cedazoensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Canis cedazoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Arctodus pristinus1 site
- Bison alaskensis1 site
- Camelops hesternus1 site
- Canis latrans1 site
- Cratogeomys castanops1 site
- Didelphis marsupialis1 site
- Equus1 site
- Equus conversidens1 site
- Erethizon dorsatum1 site
- Glyptotherium cylindricum1 site
- Gopherus auffenbergi1 site
- Hemiauchenia1 site
- Holmesina septentrionalis1 site
- Lepus californicus1 site
- Lynx rufus1 site
- Mammut americanum1 site
- Mammuthus hayi1 site
- Megascapheus umbrinus1 site
- Navahoceros fricki1 site
- Nothrotherium shastense1 site
- Panthera leo atrox1 site
- Panthera onca1 site
- Paramylodon harlani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Canis cedazoensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Canis cedazoensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Noles1984
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Canis cedazoensis 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCanis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mooser and Dalquest 1975