Kentriodon obscurus
No picture of Kentriodon obscurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Kentriodon obscurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KentriodonPBDB
- 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 most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Kentriodon obscurus 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 Kentriodon obscurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kentriodon obscurus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Kentriodon obscurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Aepycamelus1 site
- Allodesmus1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Cosmopolitodus planus1 site
- Desmostylia1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Diomedea milleri1 site
- Eotaria citrica1 site
- Equinae1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
- Hemipristis serra1 site
- Isurus1 site
- Leidymys1 site
- Mergini1 site
- Myliobatis1 site
- Negaprion1 site
- Neotherium1 site
- Otariidae1 site
- Otodus megalodon1 site
- Palaeomerycidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Kentriodon obscurus, 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- Pelagic mammals of the Temblor Formation of the Kern River region, California2
- Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California1
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. 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
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No picture of Kentriodon obscurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Kentriodon obscurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kentriodon obscurus 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 itKentriodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kellogg 1931)