Monachopsis pontica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonachopsisPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Phocidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia
Time the record covers
At least 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 774 ka.
21 occurrences of Monachopsis pontica 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
21 occurrences- Miocene95%
- Pleistocene5%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Monachopsis pontica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monachopsis pontica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Monachopsis pontica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Phocidae9 sites
- Cetacea6 sites
- Aceratherium3 sites
- Limnonyx pontica3 sites
- Praepusa pannonica3 sites
- Archaeocetus2 sites
- Cetotherium2 sites
- Cetotherium rathkii2 sites
- Chersonimactra caspia2 sites
- Deinotherium2 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Hipparion depereti2 sites
- Ictitherium2 sites
- Kentriodon fuchsii2 sites
- Lissodelphis fockii2 sites
- Lissodelphis nordmanni2 sites
- Osteichthyes2 sites
- Sarmatodelphis moldavicus2 sites
- Testudo2 sites
- Trionyx2 sites
- Anatinae1 site
- Ancerobranta tarabuchini1 site
- Anguidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Monachopsis pontica, 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
8 references- Morphology and systematics of Miocene Phocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Paratethys and the North Atlantic region9
- The Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica: isolated in a shrinking sea and adapting to its changing conditions5
- Catalog of Localities of Tertiary Vertebrates of the USSR2
- A new seal species of the genus Pachyphoca (Cystophorinae, Phocidae) from the Late Miocene of the North Caucasus1
- Associatia de vertebrate din punctul fosilifer Sarmatian mediu Otovasca (Mun. Chisinau) si importanta oor biostratigraphfica1
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
- Vertébrés fossiles de Küçükçekmece1
- Seals in the Miocene of the Caspian basin1
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Monachopsis pontica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Monachopsis pontica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Monachopsis pontica was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMonachopsis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eichwald 1850)