Daphoenodon

Daphoenodon is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore, which lived in the early Miocene and belonged to the family Amphicyonidae of the suborder Caniformia. The species of Daphoenodon are characterized by limbs that are specialized in fore and aft movement, as well as a body alignment that results in a lengthened stride.

Daphoenodon

Robert Bruce Horsfall · 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
DaphoeninaePBDB
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 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Oligocene — about 3 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 42 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences23.04 Mya18.5 Mya30 Mya15.8 Mya

42 occurrences of Daphoenodon 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

42 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

12 formations

Runningwater — 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°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.50°N, 119.30°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WHarrison — 42.67°N, 104.07°WZia Sand — 35.70°N, 107.00°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 Daphoenodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Daphoenodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Daphoenodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Daphoenodon, 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

19 references

Each of the 42 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. 7 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 Daphoenodon

Credit
Robert Bruce Horsfall
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Daphoenodon 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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What may have been alongside itDaphoeninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peterson 1909