Kampholophos
No picture of Kampholophos 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 Kampholophos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KentriodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontoceti
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti
Time the record covers
At least 6.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
4 occurrences of Kampholophos 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Monterey Formation2
- Claremont Formation · Monterey Group1
- Temblor Formation1
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The named rock units Kampholophos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kampholophos and its relatives
MioceneWhere Kampholophos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Mysticeti2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
- Aethia1 site
- Albireonidae1 site
- Alca1 site
- Alcidae1 site
- Allodesmus1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Borophagus1 site
- Bouromeryx submilleri1 site
- Brevirostrodelphis dividum1 site
- Cerorhinca1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Delphinapterinae1 site
- Delphinoidea1 site
- Desmostylia1 site
- Desmostylus1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Dioplotherium allisoni1 site
- Dusisiren1 site
- Equinae1 site
- Fulmarus hammeri1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kampholophos, 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
3 references- Outline of eastern North Pacific fossil cetacean assemblages2
- Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California1
- A new iniid cetacean from the Miocene of California1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Kampholophos 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 Kampholophos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kampholophos 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKentriodontidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rensberger 1969