Phlaocyon achoros
Phlaocyon achoros is an extinct species of the genus Phlaocyon, belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae and tribe Phlaocyonini, a canid which inhabited the southeastern North America from the Late Oligocene to Miocene living 24.6—20.8 mya and existed for approximately 4.2 million years.
No picture of Phlaocyon achoros was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phlaocyon achoros, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhlaocyonPBDB
- 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 most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phlaocyon achoros 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Phlaocyon achoros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phlaocyon achoros and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Phlaocyon achoros and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anchitheriinae1 site
- Centetodon magnus1 site
- Cormocyon copei1 site
- Cynarctoides lemur1 site
- Daphoenodon notionastes1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Geomyoidea1 site
- Harrymys magnus1 site
- Karstopteryx gunnelli1 site
- Merycoidodontidae1 site
- Moropus oregonensis1 site
- Mustelidae1 site
- Nanotragulus loomisi1 site
- Nimravidae1 site
- Nothokemas1 site
- Parvericius1 site
- Sinclairella simplicidens1 site
- Tayassuinae1 site
- Texomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phlaocyon achoros, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Phlaocyon achoros was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phlaocyon achoros, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phlaocyon achoros 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhlaocyon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frailey 1979)