Enhydrocyon crassidens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnhydrocyonPBDB
- 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 least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 23.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Enhydrocyon crassidens on record. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Harrison Formation · Arikaree Group3
- Monroe Creek Formation1
- Sharps Formation1
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The named rock units Enhydrocyon crassidens 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.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Promerycochoerus carrikeri5 sites
- Promerycochoerus superbus3 sites
- Desmatochoerus curvidens2 sites
- Diceratherium annectens2 sites
- Diceratherium armatum2 sites
- Leptocyon gregorii2 sites
- Nanotragulus loomisi2 sites
- Paraenhydrocyon josephi2 sites
- Paraenhydrocyon wallovianus2 sites
- Paramerychyus harrisonensis2 sites
- Camelidae1 site
- Campestrallomys dawsonae1 site
- Capacikala gradatus1 site
- Capatanka1 site
- Cormocyon haydeni1 site
- Crucimys milleri1 site
- Desmocyon thomsoni1 site
- Fanimus clasoni1 site
- Fossorcastor brachyceps1 site
- Gregorymys formosus1 site
- Kalobatippus avus1 site
- Leidymys blacki1 site
- Leptauchenia decora1 site
- Leptomerycidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Enhydrocyon crassidens, 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
2 references- Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae)4
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota4
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Enhydrocyon crassidens
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Enhydrocyon crassidens 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 itEnhydrocyon through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1907