Mammut pacificus

Mammut pacificus

Alton C. Dooley Jr, Eric Scott, Jeremy Green, Kathleen B. Springer, Brett S. Dooley and Gregory James Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
MammutPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Mammut
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Mammut
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 1 of 40 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 39 of 40 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences1.4 Mya129 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Mammut pacificus 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

40 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

7 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°W? Tulare — 35.30°N, 118.50°WLa Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°W

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The named rock units Mammut pacificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mammut pacificus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mammut pacificus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Mammut pacificus, 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

2 references

Each of the 40 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Mammut pacificus

Credit
Alton C. Dooley Jr, Eric Scott, Jeremy Green, Kathleen B. Springer, Brett S. Dooley and Gregory James Smith
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mammut pacificus · mor:605

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMammut through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dooley et al. 2019