Eretiscus tonnii
No picture of Eretiscus tonnii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Eretiscus tonnii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EretiscusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sphenisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 5.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eretiscus tonnii 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 Eretiscus tonnii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eretiscus tonnii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Eretiscus tonnii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Anseriformes1 site
- Aondelphis talen1 site
- Argyrocetus patagonicus1 site
- Arthrodytes1 site
- Cayaoa bruneti1 site
- Discinisca porvenir1 site
- Echinorhinus pozzii1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
- Helianthochelys redondita1 site
- Idiorophus patagonicus1 site
- Kentriodon1 site
- Kentriodontidae1 site
- Palaeospheniscus1 site
- Palaeospheniscus biloculata1 site
- Paraptenodytes antarcticus1 site
- Phocidae1 site
- Physeteroidea1 site
- Prosqualodon australis1 site
- Protypotherium columnifer1 site
- Sphenisciformes1 site
- Squalodontidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eretiscus tonnii, 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
2 references- Notes on some fossil penguins, including a new genus from Patagonia2
- Hallazgos recientes de vertebrados marinos en el area de Puerto Madry Y Valle Inferior del Rio Chubut, Chubut, Argentina1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eretiscus tonnii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Eretiscus tonnii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eretiscus tonnii 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEretiscus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Simpson 1981)