Tephrocyon rurestris
No picture of Tephrocyon rurestris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tephrocyon rurestris 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 Tephrocyon rurestris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TephrocyonPBDB
- 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 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Tephrocyon rurestris 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tephrocyon rurestris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tephrocyon rurestris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tephrocyon rurestris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Ticholeptus zygomaticus5 sites
- Acritohippus isonesus4 sites
- Leporidae3 sites
- Aphelops2 sites
- Archaeohippus2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Desmatippus avus2 sites
- Hesperogaulus gazini2 sites
- Hypohippus osborni2 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus2 sites
- Merycodontinae2 sites
- Proboscidea2 sites
- Rhinocerotidae2 sites
- Tayassuidae2 sites
- Achlyoscapter longirostris1 site
- Alluvisorex arcadentes1 site
- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Amphicyon frendens1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Balantiomys oregonensis1 site
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Copemys pagei1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tephrocyon rurestris, 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- A new late Hemingfordian vertebrate fauna from Hawk Rim, Oregon, with implications for biostratigraphy and geochronology2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae)2
- The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA1
Each of the 7 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 Tephrocyon rurestris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tephrocyon rurestris 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 Tephrocyon rurestris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tephrocyon rurestris 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 itTephrocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Condon 1896)