Pliocyon

No picture of Pliocyon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pliocyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphicyoninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 15 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPliocene19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.5–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.3–6.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.8–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya8.725 Mya19 Mya3.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Pliocyon 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

16 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

8 formations

Olcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WRattlesnake — 44.50°N, 119.30°WStarlight — 42.80°N, 112.90°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Pliocyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliocyon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pliocyon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

360 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pliocyon, 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

11 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

No picture of Pliocyon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pliocyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pliocyon 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.

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What may have been alongside itAmphicyoninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1918