Nyctereutes

Nyctereutes is a genus of Asian canid with two extant species, the raccoon dogs: the common raccoon dog and the Japanese raccoon dog.

Nyctereutes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
raccoon dogPBDB
Sits inside
CaninaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, carnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 50 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 50 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Nyctereutes on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

50 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

10 formations

Khapry — 47.22°N, 38.91°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°WKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EKuruksai suite — 38.31°N, 69.67°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°EZanda — 31.77°N, 79.52°EGonia — 40.51°N, 22.84°EHadar — 11.07°N, 40.77°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EMazegou — 37.09°N, 112.82°E

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The named rock units Nyctereutes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nyctereutes and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Nyctereutes and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

635 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Nyctereutes, 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

38 references

Each of the 50 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. 26 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Nyctereutes

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Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCaninae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temminck 1839)