Pagophilus groenlandica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- harp sealPBDB
- Sits inside
- PagophilusPBDB
- 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 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
43 occurrences of Pagophilus groenlandica on record. 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
43 occurrences- Pleistocene49%
- Holocene51%
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 Pagophilus groenlandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Erignathus barbatus13 sites
- Odobenus rosmarus12 sites
- Rangifer tarandus12 sites
- Ursus maritimus11 sites
- Phoca hispida10 sites
- Vulpes lagopus9 sites
- Pusa hispida8 sites
- Phoca7 sites
- Cetacea6 sites
- Monodon monoceros6 sites
- Ovibos moschatus6 sites
- Phoca vitulina6 sites
- Balaena mysticetus5 sites
- Branta5 sites
- Delphinapterus leucas5 sites
- Lepus arcticus5 sites
- Canis4 sites
- Fulmarus glacialis4 sites
- Gadus4 sites
- Larus4 sites
- Alle alle3 sites
- Canis familiaris3 sites
- Cepphus grylle3 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Pagophilus groenlandica, 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
25 references- Polar bear fossil and archaeological records from the Pleistocene and Holocene in relation to sea ice extent and open water polynyas4
- Living in the narrows: subsistence economy and culture change in Labrador Inuit society during the Contact Period4
- Ueber den Seehund des Elbinger Yoldia-Thones4
- Post-glacial history of the European seal fauna on the basis of sub-fossil records3
- The evolution of Arctic marine mammals2
- Holocene environmental changes and the seal (Phocidae) fauna of the Baltic Sea: coming, going and staying2
- A Weischelian marine mammal assemblage from the southern North Sea2
- The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe2
- The Weichselian (c. 115,000 - 10,000 B.P.) vertebrate fauna of Norway2
- Contributions to the Quaternary geology of northern West Greenland especially the raised marine deposits2
- Pinnipeds from Miocene and Pleistocene deposits of California2
- Neo-Inuit strategies for ensuring food security during the Little Ice Age climate change episode, Foxe Basin, Arctic Canada1
Each of the 43 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. 13 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Pagophilus groenlandica 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 Pagophilus groenlandica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPagophilus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Erxleben 1777)