Pelagiarctos thomasi
No picture of Pelagiarctos thomasi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pelagiarctos thomasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelagiarctosPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Odobenidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pelagiarctos thomasi 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pelagiarctos thomasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pelagiarctos thomasi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pelagiarctos thomasi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Presbychen abavus2 sites
- Allodesmus kernensis1 site
- Allodesmus sinanoensis1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Branta1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharias clavatus1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cephaloscyllium1 site
- Cetorhinus1 site
- Ciconiidae1 site
- Cosmopolitodus planus1 site
- Dasyatis1 site
- Dermochelyidae1 site
- Diomedea milleri1 site
- Echinorhinus blakei1 site
- Fulmarus miocaenus1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
- Galeorhinus1 site
- Hemipristis serra1 site
- Heterodontus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pelagiarctos thomasi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Pelagiarctos thomasi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pelagiarctos thomasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pelagiarctos thomasi 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 itPelagiarctos through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barnes 1988