Vulpes stenognathus

Vulpes stenognathus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VulpesPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Vulpes
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Vulpes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 210 ka.

Miocene — about 18 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 22 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.1–8.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–4.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–867 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences867 ka–433 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya1.4 Mya13 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Vulpes stenognathus 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

22 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

11 formations

Ash Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WChamita — 36.09°N, 106.05°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WBedrock Spring — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBig Sandy — 34.70°N, 113.40°WRattlesnake — 44.50°N, 119.30°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WGoodnight Beds — 35.00°N, 101.30°WQuiburis — 32.50°N, 110.60°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°W

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The named rock units Vulpes stenognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vulpes stenognathus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vulpes stenognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Vulpes stenognathus, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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 Vulpes stenognathus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Vulpes stenognathus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Savage 1941