Enaliarctidae
Ghedoghedo · 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
- PinnipedimorphaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- coastalPBDB, for Pinnipedimorpha
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
5 occurrences of Enaliarctidae 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
4 formations
- Akeyo Formation · Mizunami Group2
- Jewett Formation1
- Yamanouchi Formation · Mizunami Group1
- Oidawara Formation1
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The named rock units Enaliarctidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Enaliarctidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Enaliarctidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Alopias exigua1 site
- Alopias latidens1 site
- Alopias vulpinus1 site
- Amiantis mathewsoni1 site
- Anadara montereyana1 site
- Anatolikos itoigawai1 site
- Argyrocetus bakersfieldensis1 site
- Argyrocetus joaquinensis1 site
- Atrina alamedensis1 site
- Aulophyseter1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bothidae1 site
- Brevirostrodelphis dividum1 site
- Bruclarkia gravida1 site
- Cancellaria oregonensis1 site
- Cancer1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Cephaloscyllium1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cetorhinus1 site
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis1 site
- Chlamys sespeensis1 site
- Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Enaliarctidae, 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- An Early Miocene enaliarctine pinniped (Carnivora: Otariidae) fro the western North Pacific4
- Fossil enaliarctine pinnpeds (Mammalia: Otariidae) from Pyramid Hill, Kern County, California)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
Media content1
Picture of Enaliarctidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Enaliarctidae 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 itPinnipedimorpha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mitchell and Tedford 1973)