Daphoeninae

The Daphoeninae are an extinct subfamily of dog-like, terrestrial carnivores, which belonged to the family Amphicyonidae of the suborder Caniformia. The group inhabited North America from the Middle Eocene subepoch to the Middle Miocene subepoch 42—15.97 million years ago (Mya), existing for about 26.03 million years.

Daphoeninae

Peterson. · 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
AmphicyonidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.7 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 58 of 182 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 75 of 182 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 49 of 182 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 13 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 18 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 18 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences37 Mya18.5 Mya40.2 Mya15.8 Mya

182 occurrences of Daphoeninae 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

182 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

25 formations

Brule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 41.66°N, 103.72°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WJohn Day — 44.50°N, 119.30°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.59°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.49°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WWhite River — 43.00°N, 104.50°WWhite River — 40.10°N, 102.20°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.02°WRunningwater — 42.40°N, 103.80°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WRunningwater — 41.70°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.70°N, 102.50°WMarsland — 42.42°N, 103.87°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMarsland — 42.62°N, 104.40°WMarsland — 42.10°N, 105.00°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.00°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WHarrison — 42.67°N, 104.07°WZia Sand — 35.70°N, 107.00°WChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WCook Ranch — 45.00°N, 112.80°W"Titanotherium Beds" — 42.40°N, 103.80°W"Oreodon Beds" — 42.40°N, 103.80°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WTecuya — 34.92°N, 118.97°WCrystal River — 29.75°N, 82.63°WHector — 34.80°N, 117.00°W"middle Miocene" — 41.30°N, 105.10°WOakville — 30.10°N, 96.10°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°WCarpenter Ranch — 42.24°N, 104.08°W

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The named rock units Daphoeninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Daphoeninae and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Daphoeninae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

993 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 154 sites for Daphoeninae, 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

51 references

Each of the 182 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. 39 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Daphoeninae

Credit
Peterson.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Daphoeninae 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hunt 1998