Leptocyon matthewi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptocyonPBDB
- 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 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Leptocyon matthewi 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
18 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
4 formations
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group14
- Snake Creek Formation1
- referred Chamita Formation1
- Esmeralda Formation1
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The named rock units Leptocyon matthewi 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.
Leptocyon matthewi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Leptocyon matthewi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
197 taxa- Teleoceras major16 sites
- Epicyon saevus15 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides14 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum10 sites
- Aphelops megalodus7 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis7 sites
- Cynarctus crucidens7 sites
- Hippotherium7 sites
- Nannippus7 sites
- Paratomarctus euthos7 sites
- Protohippus supremus7 sites
- Ustatochoerus major7 sites
- Calippus martini6 sites
- Calippus placidus6 sites
- Hypohippus6 sites
- Longirostromeryx wellsi6 sites
- Cormohipparion occidentale5 sites
- Epicyon haydeni5 sites
- Macrogenis crassigenis5 sites
- Pliohippus pernix5 sites
- Carpocyon robustus4 sites
- Mylagaulidae4 sites
- Neohipparion affine4 sites
- Pseudoceras skinneri4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Leptocyon matthewi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 18 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Leptocyon matthewi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leptocyon matthewi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptocyon matthewi 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 itLeptocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tedford et al. 2009