Piscophoca pacifica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PiscophocaPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Phocidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Piscophoca pacifica 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 Piscophoca pacifica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Piscophoca pacifica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Piscophoca pacifica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Acrophoca longirostris2 sites
- Alosidae2 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias2 sites
- Cetotheriidae2 sites
- Fulmarus2 sites
- Hydrarctos lomasiensis2 sites
- Megatheriidae2 sites
- Monachinae2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Odobenocetops leptodon2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Pelagornis2 sites
- Phalacrocorax2 sites
- Phocoenidae2 sites
- Piscolithax longirostris2 sites
- Procellariidae2 sites
- Spheniscidae2 sites
- Sula2 sites
- Acanthina obesa1 site
- Acanthina triangularis1 site
- Amantis sp.1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Balaenoptera siberi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Piscophoca pacifica, 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- Geology and paleontology of late Cenozoic marine deposits in the Sacaco area (Peru)1
- Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Premiere parti: Deux nouveaux Monachina (Phocidae, Mammalia) du Pliocene de Sud-Sacaco1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Piscophoca pacifica 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 Piscophoca pacifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Piscophoca pacifica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPiscophoca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muizon 1981