Xenocyon falconeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XenocyonPBDB
- 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 least 335 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 2.245 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
13 occurrences of Xenocyon falconeri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
13 occurrences- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene92%
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 Xenocyon falconeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Xenocyon falconeri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Xenocyon falconeri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Stephanorhinus etruscus8 sites
- Ursus etruscus8 sites
- Mammuthus meridionalis7 sites
- Equus6 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis6 sites
- Eucladoceros5 sites
- Canis etruscus4 sites
- Gazella4 sites
- Homotherium crenatidens4 sites
- Hypolagus brachygnathus4 sites
- Hystrix4 sites
- Leptobos4 sites
- Vulpes alopecoides4 sites
- Acinonyx pardinensis3 sites
- Allophaiomys pliocaenicus3 sites
- Cervidae3 sites
- Cervus nestii3 sites
- Gazellospira3 sites
- Lepus3 sites
- Pachycrocuta brevirostris3 sites
- Vulpes3 sites
- Allohippus stenonis2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Beremendia fissidens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Xenocyon falconeri, 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- The Latest Villfranchian faunas in Italy - the Pirro Nord local fauna (Apricena, Gargano)3
- Cave canem! The earliest Canis (Xenocyon) (Canidae, Mammalia) of Europe: Taxonomic affinities and paleoecology of the fossil wild dogs1
- Meles iberica n. sp., a new Eurasian badger (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Fonelas P-1 (Plio-Pleistocene boundary, Guadix Basin, Granada, Spain)1
- Subsistence patterns of Early Pleistocene hominids in the Levant - taphonomic evidence from the 'Ubeidiya Formation1
- Middle and Late Villafranchian vertebrates from Tuscany and Umbria. A synopsis1
- Taphonomy and palaeoecology of an assemblage of large mammals: hyaenid activity in the Lower Pleistocene site at Venta MIcena (Orce, Guadix-Baza basin, Granada, Spain)1
- Biochronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Betfia (Bihor, Romania)1
- The Plio-Pleistocene Old World Canis (Xenocyon) ex gr. falconeri1
- Villafranchian faunal record of Spain1
- Die fauna zweier villafrankischer Fundstellen in Rumaenien1
- Notizie sul ritrovamento di fauna a rinoceronte etrusco e macairodo all'Argentario (prov. di Grosseto)1
Each of the 13 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 Xenocyon falconeri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Xenocyon falconeri 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 itXenocyon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forsyth-Major 1877)