Pteronarctos goedertae
No picture of Pteronarctos goedertae 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 Pteronarctos goedertae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteronarctosPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- coastalPBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pteronarctos goedertae 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
5 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 Pteronarctos goedertae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pteronarctos goedertae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pteronarctos goedertae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Desmatophoca oregonensis2 sites
- Allodesminae1 site
- Aphelops1 site
- Cophocetus oregonensis1 site
- Desmostylus hesperus1 site
- Enaliarctos1 site
- Eodesmus condoni1 site
- Otodus chubutensis1 site
- Pacificotaria hadromma1 site
- Proneotherium repenningi1 site
- Tylocephalonyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pteronarctos goedertae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- New specimens of the pinnipediform Pteronarctos from the Miocene of Oregon2
- Basicranial evidence for ursid affinity of the oldest pinnipeds1
- A new Miocene enaliarctine pinniped of the genus Pteronarctos (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation, Oregon1
- A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Pteronarctos goedertae 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 Pteronarctos goedertae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pteronarctos goedertae 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 itPteronarctos through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barnes 1989