Cynarctus saxatilis
No picture of Cynarctus saxatilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cynarctus saxatilis 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 Cynarctus saxatilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
9 occurrences of Cynarctus saxatilis 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
9 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
2 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group6
- Monarch Mill Formation1
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The named rock units Cynarctus saxatilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cynarctus saxatilis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cynarctus saxatilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
245 taxa- Aelurodon ferox5 sites
- Glyptemys valentinensis5 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius5 sites
- Ustatochoerus medius5 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis4 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis4 sites
- Eucastor tortus4 sites
- Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) orthopygia4 sites
- Hypohippus osborni4 sites
- Leptocyon vafer4 sites
- Metechinus amplior4 sites
- Mystipterus4 sites
- Parahippus cognatus4 sites
- Parvericius montanus4 sites
- Peraceras superciliosum4 sites
- Procamelus occidentalis4 sites
- Procranioceras skinneri4 sites
- Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus4 sites
- Trilophodon osborni4 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus4 sites
- Aepycamelus robustus3 sites
- Amphicyonidae3 sites
- Bassariscus antiquus3 sites
- Carpocyon compressus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cynarctus saxatilis, 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
5 references- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska4
- Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae)2
- Borophagine canids of the Monarch Mill Formation (Middle Miocene), Nevada, U.S.A.1
- An early Valentinian vertebrate local fauna from southern Webster. Country, Nebraska1
- New canidae from the Miocene of Colorado1
Each of the 9 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 Cynarctus saxatilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cynarctus saxatilis 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 Cynarctus saxatilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cynarctus saxatilis 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. Matthew 1902