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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Amphicyonidae : Daphoenus : Daphoenus vetus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Amphicyonidae : Daphoenus : Daphoenus vetus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Daphoenus |
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| Scientific Name | Daphoenus vetus (Leidy, 1853) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Daphoenus vetus | species | belongs to Daphoenus | stated without evidence | Leidy, 1853 | | Daphoenus vetus | species | belongs to Amphicyon | stated without evidence | Leidy, 1854 | | Daphoenus vetus | species | belongs to Daphoenus | stated with evidence | Wortman and Matthew, 1899 | | Daphoenus vetus | species | belongs to Daphoenus | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Daphoenus vetus | species | belongs to Daphoenus | stated with evidence | Hunt, 1998 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 33.9 - 33.3 Ma
Oligocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 33.9 - 33.3 Ma
Oligocene |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Eutheria) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | carnivore, omnivore (based on Daphoenus) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. Leidy. 1853. [On leave granted, Dr. Leidy made the following coinmnunication]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6:392-394 |
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| Leidy J. [On leave granted, Dr. Leidy made the following coinmnunication], Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6, 392-394 |
| Wortman J. L., Matthew W. D. The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12 6, 109-138 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Scott W. B., Jepsen G. L. (1936) The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part I. Insectivora and Carnivora, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28 1, 1-153 doi:10.2307/1005507 |
| Hough J. R. (1948) A systematic revision of Daphoenus and some allied genera, Journal of Paleontology 22 5, 573-600 |
| Hunt, Jr. R. M. (1996) Amphicyonidae, The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America, 476-485 doi:10.1017/CBO9780511665431.024 |
| Hunt, Jr. R. M. (1998) Amphicyonidae, 196-227 |
Daphoenus vetus ✝
Sioux County, Nebraska, USA