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| Title |
A Reevaluation of the Morphology, Paleoecology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Enigmatic Walrus Pelagiarctos
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0054311 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert W. Boessenecker, Morgan Churchill |
| Abstract |
A number of aberrant walruses (Odobenidae) have been described from the Neogene of the North Pacific, including specialized suction-feeding and generalist fish-eating taxa. At least one of these fossil walruses has been hypothesized to have been a specialized predator of other marine mammals, the middle Miocene walrus Pelagiarctos thomasi from the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed of California (16.1-14.5 Ma). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 28 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 39% |
| Japan | 2 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Comoros | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Norway | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 21 | 75% |
| Scientists | 5 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 90 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Norway | 1 | 1% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 81 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 11 | 12% |
| Unknown | 17 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 40 | 44% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 20 | 22% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 4% |
| Mathematics | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 16 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 70. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 March 2024.
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#4,569
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#165
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