Daphoenus hartshornianus

Daphoenus hartshornianus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DaphoenusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Daphoenus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31.8 Mya29.5 Mya34.4 Mya18 Mya

7 occurrences of Daphoenus hartshornianus 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

7 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

2 formations

Brule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°W

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The named rock units Daphoenus hartshornianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Daphoenus hartshornianus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Daphoenus hartshornianus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Daphoenus hartshornianus, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Daphoenus hartshornianus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Daphoenus hartshornianus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDaphoenus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1873)