Homiphoca

Homiphoca is an extinct genus of earless seals from the Pliocene of South Africa.

No picture of Homiphoca 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 Homiphoca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LobodontiniPBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Phocidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya – 5.333 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

19 occurrences of Homiphoca 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

19 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

8 formations

Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 36.45°N, 77.08°WBredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°WHuelva Sands — 37.21°N, 7.12°WHuelva — 37.27°N, 6.95°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.45°W

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The named rock units Homiphoca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

767 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Homiphoca, 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

16 references

Each of the 19 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Homiphoca 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 Homiphoca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Homiphoca 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Muizon and Hendey 1980