Pinnipedimorpha

Pinnipedimorpha

Kevin Guertin from Ottawa, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
Also called
pinnipedPBDB
Sits inside
PanpinnipediaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
coastalPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 1880 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 1880 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 588 of 1880 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 210 of 1880 occurrencesPleistocene — about 412 of 1880 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 15 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 34 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 53 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 89 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 106 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 56 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 59 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 59 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 60 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 99 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 106 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 101 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 982 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

1,880 occurrences of Pinnipedimorpha 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

1,880 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

222 formations

Monterey — 33.77°N, 118.34°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.70°WMonterey — 34.60°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.33°WMonterey — 33.78°N, 118.39°WMonterey — 33.64°N, 117.63°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 37.24°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.03°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.20°N, 76.90°WYorktown — 36.77°N, 76.37°WYorktown — 37.22°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.45°N, 77.09°WYorktown — 36.33°N, 77.58°WYorktown — 35.93°N, 77.57°WYorktown — 35.91°N, 77.32°WYorktown — 35.60°N, 77.37°WYorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 35.10°N, 77.03°WYorktown — 35.63°N, 77.34°WYorktown — 34.36°N, 77.87°WYorktown — 34.97°N, 76.81°WYorktown — 37.04°N, 76.36°WYorktown — 36.45°N, 77.08°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 37.53°N, 77.42°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 37.67°N, 77.16°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.87°WCalvert — 38.61°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.85°WCalvert — 38.38°N, 76.99°WCalvert — 37.77°N, 77.28°WPisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.44°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 14.56°S, 75.67°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 14.34°S, 75.91°WPisco — 14.45°S, 75.75°WPisco — 15.07°S, 75.01°WPisco — 15.06°S, 74.08°WPurisima — 36.95°N, 122.04°WPurisima — 37.47°N, 122.45°WPurisima — 36.97°N, 121.95°WPurisima — 38.06°N, 122.97°WPurisima — 37.53°N, 122.52°WPurisima — 37.29°N, 122.41°WPurisima — 36.95°N, 122.05°WSanta Margarita — 37.08°N, 122.07°WSanta Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.04°WSanta Margarita — 37.00°N, 122.00°WSanta Margarita — 35.13°N, 118.82°WSanta Margarita — 36.97°N, 122.06°WSanta Margarita — 36.80°N, 121.79°WSanta Margarita — 36.61°N, 121.74°WBahía Inglesa — 27.14°S, 70.88°WBahía Inglesa — 27.13°S, 70.83°WBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.16°S, 70.89°WBahía Inglesa — 27.72°S, 70.99°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.83°N, 118.31°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.78°N, 118.19°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.00°S, 18.00°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EAstoria — 44.70°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 44.65°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 46.28°N, 123.78°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.76°N, 81.83°WPeace River — 27.81°N, 81.91°WDiest — 51.21°N, 4.43°EDiest — 51.22°N, 4.46°ETemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 37.73°N, 122.13°WCapistrano — 33.56°N, 117.71°WCapistrano — 33.44°N, 117.62°WCapistrano — 33.50°N, 117.66°WCapistrano — 33.66°N, 117.67°WCapistrano — 33.63°N, 117.65°WAoki — 36.32°N, 137.95°EAoki — 36.32°N, 137.94°EJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WJewett — 35.67°N, 118.91°WKattendijk — 51.21°N, 4.43°ETamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTamiami — 27.70°N, 82.50°WTamiami — 27.50°N, 82.50°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.08°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 26.98°N, 82.21°WTamiami — 26.95°N, 82.35°WNye — 44.65°N, 124.06°WNye — 44.52°N, 124.08°WBerchem — 51.21°N, 4.43°EBerchem — 51.17°N, 4.46°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°ESan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WRed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.05°N, 1.25°ERed Crag — 52.09°N, 1.31°E

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The named rock units Pinnipedimorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 198 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,131 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

2,816 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,278 sites for Pinnipedimorpha, and this reads 240 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

571 references

Each of the 1,880 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. 559 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

Picture of Pinnipedimorpha

Credit
Kevin Guertin from Ottawa, Canada
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pinnipedimorpha 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berta et al. 1989