Aporotus recurvirostris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AporotusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ziphiidae
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aporotus recurvirostris 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 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aporotus recurvirostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aporotus recurvirostris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aporotus recurvirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Xiphiacetus cristatus2 sites
- Amphicetus1 site
- Anser1 site
- Aporotus dicyrtus1 site
- Archaeoziphius microglenoideus1 site
- Arctoidea1 site
- Balaena1 site
- Balaena dubusi1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Belemnoziphius compressus1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cetorhinus maximus1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Choneziphius planirostris1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
- Eurhinodelphis1 site
- Eurhinodelphis longirostris1 site
- Heterocetus1 site
- Heterocetus brevifrons1 site
- Isocetus depauwi1 site
- Lophius1 site
- Mysticeti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aporotus recurvirostris, 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
3 references- Past beaked whale diversity in the North Sea: reappraisal through a new Miocene record and biostratigraphic analyses1
- Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium)1
- Sur differents Ziphiides nouveaux du crag d'Anvers1
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
Media content0
No picture of Aporotus recurvirostris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Aporotus recurvirostris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aporotus recurvirostris 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 itAporotus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Du Bus 1868)