Limnocyon medius
No picture of Limnocyon medius 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 Limnocyon medius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LimnocyonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Limnocyon
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Limnocyon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Limnocyon medius on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Limnocyon medius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Limnocyon medius and its relatives
EoceneWhere Limnocyon medius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Antiacodon venustus1 site
- Apatemys bellus1 site
- Boverisuchus vorax1 site
- Helohyus lentus1 site
- Homacodon vagans1 site
- Hyopsodus paulus1 site
- Isectolophus latidens1 site
- Microsus1 site
- Notharctus robustior1 site
- Palaeosyops fontinalis1 site
- Palaeosyops robustus1 site
- Telmatherium validus1 site
- Uintanius ameghini1 site
- Uintasorex parvulus1 site
- Uintatherium anceps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Limnocyon medius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world2
- Small Limnocyonines (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) From the Bridgerian Middle Eocene of Wyoming: Thinocyon, Prolimnocyon, And Iridodon, New Genus1
Each of the 3 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 Limnocyon medius 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 Limnocyon medius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Limnocyon medius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLimnocyon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wortman 1902)