Leptocyon vulpinus
No picture of Leptocyon vulpinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Leptocyon vulpinus itself, so it was not used. 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 vulpinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Leptocyon vulpinus 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
6 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
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The named rock units Leptocyon vulpinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptocyon vulpinus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Leptocyon vulpinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Amphicyon galushai3 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens3 sites
- Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum2 sites
- Menoceras barbouri2 sites
- Merychyus elegans2 sites
- Merycochoerus proprius2 sites
- Aletomeryx gracilis1 site
- Anchitheriomyinae1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Anchitheriomys stouti1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Balearicinae1 site
- Bassariscinae indet.1 site
- Brachypsalis1 site
- Craterogale simus1 site
- Cynarctoides emryi1 site
- Desmatippus tyleri1 site
- Desmatochoerus curvidens1 site
- Desmocyon matthewi1 site
- Diceratherium1 site
- Ectopocynus simplicidens1 site
- Edaphocyon lautus1 site
- Euroxenomys wilsoni1 site
- Fanimus ultimus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Leptocyon vulpinus, 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
3 references- Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)4
- Fossil dogs (Carnivora, Canidae) from the Sespe and Vaqueros formations in Southern California, with comments on relationships of Phlaocyon taylori1
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Leptocyon vulpinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Leptocyon vulpinus itself, so it was not used.
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 vulpinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptocyon vulpinus 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 itLeptocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1907)