Allodesmus sinanoensis

Kumano · Public Domain · 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- Sits inside
- AllodesmusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
16 occurrences of Allodesmus sinanoensis 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
16 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
6 formations
- Aoki Formation8
- Bessho Formation4
- Tsurushi Formation1
- Haraichi Formation · Tomioka Group1
- Temblor Formation1
- Monterey Formation1
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The named rock units Allodesmus sinanoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allodesmus sinanoensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Allodesmus sinanoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Cetacea6 sites
- Balaenomorpha4 sites
- Allodesmus kernensis2 sites
- Balaenopteridae2 sites
- Delphinoidea2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Ziphiidae2 sites
- Acharax johnsoni1 site
- Acipenseridae1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Balaenoptera1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Branta1 site
- Brygmophyseter shigensis1 site
- Buccinum1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharias clavatus1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cephaloscyllium1 site
- Cetorhinus1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Ciconiidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Allodesmus sinanoensis, 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
7 references- Outline of fossil marine mammals from the Middle Miocene Bessho and Aoki Formations, Nagano Prefecture, Japan9
- Miocene pinnipeds of the otariid subfamily Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: Systematics and relationships2
- Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California1
- New data on the early odobenid Neotherium mirum Kellogg, 1931, and other pinniped remains from the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California1
- Miocene Otariid (Allodesminae) scapula from Haraichi Formation, Tomioka Group, Gunma, Japan1
- Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora); with special reference to the "Mito seal" from Ibaraki Prefecture, Central Japan1
- An occurrence of a fossil sea lion in the Miocene deposits of Sinano, Japan1
Each of the 16 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
Media content1

Picture of Allodesmus sinanoensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Kumano
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Allodesmus sinanoensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itAllodesmus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nagao 1941)