Cynarctus galushai

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CynarctusPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cynarctus 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
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cynarctus galushai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cynarctus galushai and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cynarctus galushai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Paratomarctus temerarius3 sites
- Scaphohippus intermontanus3 sites
- Aelurodon asthenostylus2 sites
- Aepycamelus2 sites
- Amphicyon2 sites
- Cupidinimus halli2 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi2 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus2 sites
- Merycodus2 sites
- Miospermophilus2 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus2 sites
- Perognathus minutus2 sites
- Tamias ateles2 sites
- Acritohippus stylodontus1 site
- Copemys barstowensis1 site
- Copemys longidens1 site
- Copemys tenuis1 site
- Hypohippus affinis1 site
- Hypohippus osborni1 site
- Leptocyon1 site
- Leptocyon leidyi1 site
- Megahippus1 site
- Megahippus mckennai1 site
- Merriamoceros coronatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cynarctus 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- Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae)3
- Two fossil accumulations in the Upper Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, CA2
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cynarctus galushai
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cynarctus galushai 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 itCynarctus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang et al. 1999