Imagotaria downsi

Imagotaria downsi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ImagotariaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Odobenidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 21 of 21 occurrencesMiocene12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10.0–9.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.8–9.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.6–9.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.4–9.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.5–8.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12.1 Mya6.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Imagotaria downsi 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

21 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

4 formations

Santa Margarita — 37.08°N, 122.07°WSanta Margarita — 37.06°N, 122.04°WSanta Margarita — 37.01°N, 122.01°WSanta Margarita — 36.97°N, 122.06°WSanta Margarita — 36.80°N, 121.79°WSanta Margarita — 35.13°N, 118.82°WMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 34.60°N, 120.44°WValmonte — 33.78°N, 118.33°WShiotubo — 37.63°N, 139.87°E

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

Imagotaria downsi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Imagotaria downsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Imagotaria downsi, 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

8 references

Each of the 21 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 Imagotaria downsi

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HodgePodge1765
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Imagotaria downsi 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 itImagotaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mitchell 1968