Balaenopteroidea

Balaenopteroidea

NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlicogulaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Mysticeti
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mysticeti

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 9 of 126 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 58 of 126 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 126 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 126 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences25.2 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

126 occurrences of Balaenopteroidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

126 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

45 formations

Calvert — 38.50°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.85°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WDiest — 51.19°N, 4.49°EDiest — 51.18°N, 4.83°EGroote Heide — 52.04°N, 6.67°EBreda — 52.15°N, 6.61°EBreda — 51.37°N, 3.91°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.87°S, 170.71°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.68°S, 170.49°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ENagura — 36.03°N, 139.10°EEl Cien — 24.36°N, 111.02°WEl Cien — 24.34°N, 110.99°WEl Cien — 24.47°N, 110.70°WBerchem — 51.21°N, 4.43°EBerchem — 51.22°N, 4.46°EPisco — 14.35°S, 75.88°WPisco — 15.48°S, 74.80°WPisco — 14.70°S, 75.32°WKorematsu — 34.87°N, 133.01°ERosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WSabbie d'Asti — 44.96°N, 8.06°ESabbie d'Asti — 44.85°N, 8.25°EGaiman — 43.33°S, 65.32°WGaiman — 45.67°S, 67.44°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WSanta Cruz Mudstone — 37.90°N, 122.72°WTogawa — 40.43°N, 141.33°EItahashi — 34.87°N, 133.01°EYuchi — 44.89°N, 141.75°EChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°EDrakes Bay — 37.99°N, 123.00°WFunakawa — 39.22°N, 140.13°EIchikawa shell bed — 35.72°N, 139.42°E

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The named rock units Balaenopteroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balaenopteroidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balaenopteroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Balaenopteroidea, 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

82 references

Each of the 126 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. 70 further references are not listed. 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 Balaenopteroidea

Credit
NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Balaenopteroidea was found in Sketchfab.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1868)