Leptophoca lenis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptophocaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
26 occurrences of Leptophoca lenis 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
26 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
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group21
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group3
- Yorktown Formation1
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The named rock units Leptophoca lenis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptophoca lenis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Leptophoca lenis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
355 taxa- Eurhinodelphis5 sites
- Hemipristis serra5 sites
- Miocepphus mcclungi5 sites
- Atlanticetus patulus4 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus4 sites
- Mysticeti4 sites
- Otodus megalodon4 sites
- Xiphiacetus bossi4 sites
- Delphinidae3 sites
- Diorocetus hiatus3 sites
- Mesocetus siphunculus3 sites
- Metaxytherium crataegense3 sites
- Odontoceti3 sites
- Tayassuidae3 sites
- Thecachampsa antiquus3 sites
- Xiphiacetus cristatus3 sites
- Zarhachis crassangulum3 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Albula2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Bicorbula idonea2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Leptophoca lenis, 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
6 references- Morphology and systematics of Miocene Phocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Paratethys and the North Atlantic region16
- USNM Chesapeake Group Cetacean Collection Data5
- Geology and biostratigraphy of the Potomac River Cliffs at Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia2
- New seal mandibles belonging to the subfamilies Monachinae and Phocinae discovered in the Neogene of North Carolina (USA)1
- Fossil marine mammals of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Delaware1
- Description of a new genus and species of fossil seal from the Miocene of Maryland1
Each of the 26 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 Leptophoca lenis 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 Leptophoca lenis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptophoca lenis 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 itLeptophoca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (True 1906)