Canis
Searched as Canis lupus tandrarum. The Paleobiology Database treats Canis as the accepted name.
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.
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 most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Canis on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Canis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Canis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
2,236 taxa- Equus106 sites
- Bovidae44 sites
- Lepus43 sites
- Microtus35 sites
- Camelops33 sites
- Platygonus32 sites
- Hemiauchenia31 sites
- Odocoileus31 sites
- Sylvilagus28 sites
- Leporidae27 sites
- Mimomys26 sites
- Vulpes26 sites
- Paramylodon harlani25 sites
- Camelops hesternus24 sites
- Neotoma24 sites
- Spermophilus24 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala23 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus23 sites
- Thomomys23 sites
- Cervus22 sites
- Felidae22 sites
- Homotherium22 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus21 sites
- Rhinocerotidae21 sites
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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Canis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Canis”
- 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 itCaninae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758