Phlaocyon leucosteus
No picture of Phlaocyon leucosteus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phlaocyon leucosteus itself, so it was not used. 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 leucosteus, 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 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Phlaocyon leucosteus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Runningwater Formation · Hemingford Group3
- Marsland Formation · Hemingford Group1
- Pawnee Creek Formation1
- Box Butte Formation1
- Carpenter Ranch Formation1
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The named rock units Phlaocyon leucosteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phlaocyon leucosteus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Phlaocyon leucosteus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Aletomeryx gracilis2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens2 sites
- Desmocyon matthewi2 sites
- Ectopocynus simplicidens2 sites
- Equidae2 sites
- Merycochoerus magnus2 sites
- Palaeogale minuta2 sites
- Rhinocerotidae2 sites
- Schizodontomys amnicolus2 sites
- Acritohippus tertius1 site
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Alligator mcgrewi1 site
- Alligatoridae1 site
- Amphicyon galushai1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Anchitheriinae1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Arikarictis chapini1 site
- Bassariscinae indet.1 site
- Borophaginae1 site
- Bouromeryx1 site
- Brachyerix macrotis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Phlaocyon leucosteus, 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- Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae)6
- An Early Miocene Dome-Skulled Chalicothere from the ‘‘Arikaree’’ Conglomerates of Darton: Calibrating the Ages of High Plains Paleovalleys Against Rocky Mountain Tectonism1
- Geology and paleontology of the Patrick Buttes, Sioux County, Nebraska, and Goshen County, Wyoming1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Phlaocyon leucosteus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phlaocyon leucosteus itself, so it was not used.
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 leucosteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phlaocyon leucosteus 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 itPhlaocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1899