Thalassoleon mexicanus

No picture of Thalassoleon mexicanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Thalassoleon mexicanus itself, so it was not used. 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 Thalassoleon mexicanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThalassoleonPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Otariidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pinnipedia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pinnipedia

Time the record covers

At most 3.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocene7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.75 Mya3.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Thalassoleon mexicanus 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

5 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

3 formations

Capistrano — 33.50°N, 117.66°WCapistrano — 33.43°N, 117.61°WAlmejas — 28.11°N, 115.18°WNakawatari — 38.77°N, 140.15°E

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

Thalassoleon mexicanus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Thalassoleon mexicanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Thalassoleon mexicanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 5 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 Thalassoleon mexicanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Thalassoleon mexicanus itself, so it was not used.

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 Thalassoleon mexicanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thalassoleon mexicanus 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.

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What may have been alongside itThalassoleon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Repenning and Tedford 1977