Thalassocnus natans
No picture of Thalassocnus natans 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 Thalassocnus natans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThalassocnusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Thalassocnus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.
3 occurrences of Thalassocnus natans 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Thalassocnus natans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thalassocnus natans and its relatives
MioceneWhere Thalassocnus natans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Acrophoca2 sites
- Australophoca changorum2 sites
- Balaenopteridae2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Phocidae2 sites
- Acrophyseter deinodon1 site
- Alosidae1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Cyonasua1 site
- Delphinoidea1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Istiophoridae1 site
- Megatheriidae1 site
- Monachinae1 site
- Morus peruvianus1 site
- Myliobatis1 site
- Odobenocetops1 site
- Otodus megalodon1 site
- Pelagornithidae1 site
- Perugyps diazi1 site
- Phalacrocorax1 site
- Phocoenidae1 site
- Physeteridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thalassocnus natans, 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
3 references- Aquatic sloths ( Thalassocnus ) from the Miocene of Chile and the evolution of marine mammal herbivory in the Pacific Ocean1
- Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea1
- An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru1
Each of the 3 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 Thalassocnus natans 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 Thalassocnus natans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thalassocnus natans 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 itThalassocnus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muizon and McDonald 1995