Lycaon magnus
No picture of Lycaon magnus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lycaon magnus 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 Lycaon magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LycaonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lycaon
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lycaon magnus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Lycaon magnus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lycaon magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Ceratotherium simum3 sites
- Crocuta crocuta3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Gazella atlantica3 sites
- Lupulella mohibi3 sites
- Theropithecus oswaldi3 sites
- Vulpes rueppelli3 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Connochaetes taurinus2 sites
- Eliomys2 sites
- Ellobius2 sites
- Felis2 sites
- Gerbillus2 sites
- Hippopotamus sirensis2 sites
- Homo erectus2 sites
- Hyaena hyaena2 sites
- Hystrix cristata2 sites
- Meriones2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Oryx2 sites
- Panthera leo2 sites
- Paraethomys2 sites
- Phacochoerus africanus2 sites
- Praomys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lycaon magnus, 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- A revision of the fossil Canidae (Mammalia of north-western Africa2
- Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Lycaon magnus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lycaon magnus 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 Lycaon magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lycaon magnus 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 itLycaon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ewer and Singer 1956