Miocyon

Miocyon is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to late Eocene.

Miocyon

W. D. Matthew · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MiacidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Miacidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 37 Mya.

Eocene — about 19 of 19 occurrencesEocene52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45.9 Mya39.7 Mya51.6 Mya36.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Miocyon 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

19 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

9 formations

Uinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WSantiago — 33.22°N, 117.30°WChisos — 29.20°N, 103.20°WWiggins — 43.70°N, 108.70°WDuchesne River — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Miocyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miocyon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Miocyon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Miocyon, 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

6 references

Each of the 19 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 content1

Picture of Miocyon

Credit
W. D. Matthew
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Miocyon 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

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 itMiacidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1909)