Uintacyon jugulans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UintacyonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Uintacyon
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Uintacyon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Uintacyon jugulans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Uintacyon jugulans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Uintacyon jugulans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Uintacyon jugulans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anosteira ornata1 site
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
- Centetodon altidens1 site
- Crocodylus affinis1 site
- Glyptosaurus1 site
- Hemiacodon1 site
- Homacodon vagans1 site
- Hyopsodus lepidus1 site
- Hyrachyus eximius1 site
- Microsus cuspidatus1 site
- Notharctus robustior1 site
- Oodectes herpestoides1 site
- Palaeosyops robustus1 site
- Patriofelis ferox1 site
- Sinopa minor1 site
- Siren dunni1 site
- Telmatherium validus1 site
- Tinosaurus stenodon1 site
- Uintatherium anceps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Uintacyon jugulans, 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
2 references- Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world2
- The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene1
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
Media content1
Picture of Uintacyon jugulans
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Uintacyon jugulans was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itUintacyon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1909