Mececyon trinilensis
Mececyon trinilensis, the Trinil dog, is an extinct canid species that lived on the island of Java in Indonesia during the Pleistocene.
No picture of Mececyon trinilensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mececyon trinilensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mececyon trinilensis 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
2 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.
Mececyon trinilensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mececyon trinilensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Amyda cartilaginea1 site
- Batagur affinis1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Bubalus palaeokerabau1 site
- Cervus lydekkeri1 site
- Chitra chitra1 site
- Crocodylus siamensis1 site
- Duboisia santeng1 site
- Gavialis bengawanicus1 site
- Homo erectus1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Macaca fascicularis1 site
- Megacyon1 site
- Muntiacus muntjak1 site
- Panthera tigris1 site
- Prionailurus bengalensis1 site
- Rhinoceros sondaicus1 site
- Stegodon trigonocephalus1 site
- Sus brachygnathus1 site
- Trachypithecus cristatus1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
- Varanus komodoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mececyon trinilensis, 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- Body size of insular carnivores: evidence from the fossil record1
- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Mececyon trinilensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mececyon trinilensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Mececyon trinilensis 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Mececyon”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.