Cynodesmus thooides

Cynodesmus thooides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CynodesmusPBDB
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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 12 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocene32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32.3 Mya18 Mya

14 occurrences of Cynodesmus thooides on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

14 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

4 formations

Brule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°W

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The named rock units Cynodesmus thooides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cynodesmus thooides and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Cynodesmus thooides and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cynodesmus thooides, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content2

Picture of Cynodesmus thooides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCynodesmus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scott 1893)