Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaebalaenopteraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Balaenopteridae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mysticeti
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 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 Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Apiocypraea pyrula1 site
- Aporrhais uttingeriana1 site
- Calyptraea chinensis1 site
- Capulus1 site
- Capulus hungaricus1 site
- Circomphalus1 site
- Crepidula gibbosa1 site
- Crepidula unguiformis1 site
- Gigantopecten1 site
- Gyrineum1 site
- Hinnites crispus1 site
- Mysticeti1 site
- Neosimnia pliomajor1 site
- Paphia vetula1 site
- Pseudosimnia passerinalis1 site
- Schilderia utricolata1 site
- Spondylus crassicosta1 site
- Tectonatica1 site
- Tectonatica tectula1 site
- Transennella puella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati, 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- Distribuzione geografica dei cetacei fossili del Bacino Plio-Pleistocenico di Castell'Arquato (Piacenzia)1
- I cetacei fossili conservati presso il Museo Geologico di Castell’Arquato (Piacenza)1
- A new basal balaenopterid whale from the Pliocene of northern Italy1
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 content1
Picture of Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati 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 itArchaebalaenoptera through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bisconti 2007