Paraenhydrocyon josephi

Paraenhydrocyon is an extinct genus of bone crushing omnivorous early canid which inhabited North America during the Early Miocene, 24.8—20.4 Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years.

Paraenhydrocyon josephi

New Haven : J. D. & E. S. Dana · 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
ParaenhydrocyonPBDB
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 least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 23.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 18.5 Mya.

Oligocene — about 7 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 12 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24.7 Mya23.1 Mya30 Mya18 Mya

12 occurrences of Paraenhydrocyon josephi 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

12 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

2 formations

John Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WHarrison — 42.00°N, 104.20°WHarrison — 43.00°N, 104.50°W

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The named rock units Paraenhydrocyon josephi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraenhydrocyon josephi and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Paraenhydrocyon josephi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Paraenhydrocyon josephi, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 Paraenhydrocyon josephi

Credit
New Haven : J. D. & E. S. Dana
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paraenhydrocyon josephi 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.

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 itParaenhydrocyon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1881)