Thalassoleon macnallyae

Thalassoleon macnallyae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThalassoleonPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Otariidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya7.7 Mya2.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Thalassoleon macnallyae on record. 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

4 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

2 formations

Purisima — 36.95°N, 122.03°WPurisima — 36.97°N, 121.95°WDrakes Bay — 38.03°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Thalassoleon macnallyae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Thalassoleon macnallyae, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Thalassoleon macnallyae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Thalassoleon macnallyae 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. Repenning and Tedford 1977