Rhizocyon oregonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizocyonPBDB
- 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 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 24.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Rhizocyon oregonensis 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
3 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 Rhizocyon oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhizocyon oregonensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Rhizocyon oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Archaeotherium3 sites
- Daphoenus3 sites
- Eporeodon occidentalis3 sites
- Hypertragulus hesperius3 sites
- Miohippus3 sites
- Nimravus brachyops3 sites
- Agriochoerus guyotianus2 sites
- Allomys2 sites
- Cormocyon copei2 sites
- Cynarctoides lemur2 sites
- Diceratherium2 sites
- Enhydrocyon stenocephalus2 sites
- Hypertragulus planiceps2 sites
- Mesocyon brachyops2 sites
- Paraenhydrocyon josephi2 sites
- Phlaocyon latidens2 sites
- Allocyon loganensis1 site
- Allomys simplicidens1 site
- Alwoodia magna1 site
- Archaeolagus ennisianus1 site
- Archaeotherium caninus1 site
- Capacikala gradatus1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Diceratherium armatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhizocyon oregonensis, 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
2 references- Revised chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the John Day Formation (Turtle Cove and Kimberly Members), Oregon, with implications for updated calibration of the Arikareean North American land mammal age2
- Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae)1
Each of the 3 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 Rhizocyon oregonensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhizocyon oregonensis 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 Rhizocyon oregonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhizocyon oregonensis 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 itRhizocyon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1906)