Neovulpavus washakius

Tomiya, S.; Zack, S. P.; Spaulding, M.; Flynn, J. J. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- NeovulpavusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Neovulpavus washakius 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Neovulpavus washakius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neovulpavus washakius and its relatives
EoceneWhere Neovulpavus washakius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Patriofelis ferox2 sites
- Apatemys bellus1 site
- Baena arenosa1 site
- Harpagolestes1 site
- Harpalodon sylvestris1 site
- Hemiacodon gracilis1 site
- Herpetotherium knighti1 site
- Homacodon vagans1 site
- Hyopsodus paulus1 site
- Hyrachyus eximius1 site
- Hyrachyus modestus1 site
- Isectolophus latidens1 site
- Lycarion medius1 site
- Mesatirhinus1 site
- Microsyops annectens1 site
- Mysops parvus1 site
- Notharctus robustior1 site
- Omomys carteri1 site
- Orohippus1 site
- Palaeosyops1 site
- Pantolestes longicaudus1 site
- Pantolestes natans1 site
- Pantolestidae1 site
- Paramys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Neovulpavus washakius, 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- Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world1
- Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Neovulpavus washakius
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Tomiya, S.; Zack, S. P.; Spaulding, M.; Flynn, J. J.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neovulpavus washakius 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 itNeovulpavus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wortman 1901)