Pachycynodon

Pachycynodon is an extinct genus of arctoid belonging to the family Amphicynodontidae. It lived in Europe during the late Oligocene epoch. They were relatively small carnivores. They have deep mandibles that are robust, even more robust than that of genus Amphicynodon. Their muzzle is elongated.

Pachycynodon

DagdaMor · CC BY 4.0 · 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
AmphicynodontinaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ursidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ursidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiocene34–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya23.04 Mya34.4 Mya19.9 Mya

13 occurrences of Pachycynodon 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

13 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

1 formation

Törökbálint — 47.63°N, 18.71°E

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The named rock units Pachycynodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachycynodon and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pachycynodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pachycynodon, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 Pachycynodon

Credit
DagdaMor
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itAmphicynodontinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlosser 1887