Mesocyon temnodon

No picture of Mesocyon temnodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mesocyon temnodon 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 Mesocyon temnodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesocyonPBDB
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 least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 24.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesOligocene — about 20 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31.8 Mya24.7 Mya34.4 Mya18 Mya

21 occurrences of Mesocyon temnodon on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

21 occurrences

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

4 formations

Brule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°W

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The named rock units Mesocyon temnodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesocyon temnodon and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Mesocyon temnodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Mesocyon temnodon, 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

Each of the 21 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mesocyon temnodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mesocyon temnodon 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 Mesocyon temnodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesocyon temnodon 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 itMesocyon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wortman and Matthew 1899)