Eumetopias

Eumetopias

Rolf Ream · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Steller sea lionPBDB
Sits inside
OtariidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Otariidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 24 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Eumetopias on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

38 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

9 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.31°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WIimuro — 35.52°N, 139.72°EIimuro — 35.62°N, 139.57°EMandano — 35.34°N, 140.15°ESouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°ETomioka — 37.21°N, 140.99°EOnma — 38.16°N, 139.45°EYushima — 38.98°N, 141.12°EOmma — 36.57°N, 136.69°ERanquil — 38.37°S, 73.91°W

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The named rock units Eumetopias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eumetopias and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eumetopias and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Eumetopias, 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

27 references

Each of the 38 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Eumetopias

Credit
Rolf Ream
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eumetopias jubatus · moosteo:okc:3679-23921

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 itOtariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1866