Albireo
No picture of Albireo was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Albireo 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 Albireo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlbireonidaePBDB
- 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 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Albireo on record. 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Albireo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Physeterinae2 sites
- Aivukus cedrosensis1 site
- Balaenoptera1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Cerorhinca minor1 site
- Denebola brachycephala1 site
- Dusignathinae1 site
- Dusignathus santacruzensis1 site
- Equus1 site
- Gavia concinna1 site
- Hydrodamalis cuestae1 site
- Lyropecten cerrosensis1 site
- Mancalla cedrosensis1 site
- Megapaloelodus opsigonus1 site
- Morus1 site
- Mysticeti1 site
- Odontoceti1 site
- Otariidae1 site
- Otodus megalodon1 site
- Parapontoporia pacifica1 site
- Phocoenidae1 site
- Piscolithax boreios1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Albireo, 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- Miocene and Pliocene Albireonidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti), Rare and unusual fossil dolphins from the Eastern North Pacific Ocean4
- Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
No picture of Albireo was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Albireo 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 Albireo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itAlbireonidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barnes 1984