Metalopex macconnelli
No picture of Metalopex macconnelli 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 Metalopex macconnelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetalopexPBDB
- 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 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Metalopex macconnelli 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
5 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
2 formations
- Milk Creek Formation2
- Dove Spring Formation · Ricardo Group1
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The named rock units Metalopex macconnelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Metalopex macconnelli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Metalopex macconnelli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Epicyon haydeni2 sites
- Protolabis coartatus2 sites
- Protolabis yavapaiensis2 sites
- Antilocapridae1 site
- Bassariscus1 site
- Borophaginae1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Carpocyon robustus1 site
- Equinae1 site
- Equini1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Gomphotheriidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Metalopex macconnelli, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 Metalopex macconnelli 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 Metalopex macconnelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metalopex macconnelli 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMetalopex through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tedford et al. 2009