Brachydelphis jahuayensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachydelphisPBDB
- 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 most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Brachydelphis jahuayensis 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Brachydelphis jahuayensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachydelphis jahuayensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Brachydelphis jahuayensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Myliobatis4 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Spheniscidae3 sites
- Acrophoca2 sites
- Alosidae2 sites
- Ariidae2 sites
- Cetotheriidae2 sites
- Heterodontus2 sites
- Isurus oxyrinchus2 sites
- Megatheriidae2 sites
- Monachinae2 sites
- Pelagornis2 sites
- Phalacrocorax2 sites
- Phocoenidae2 sites
- Pristiophorus2 sites
- Sula2 sites
- Aetobatus1 site
- Aetomylaeus1 site
- Archaebalaenoptera eusebioi1 site
- Australithax intermedia1 site
- Australophoca changorum1 site
- Balaenoptera siberi1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brachydelphis jahuayensis, 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- A new long-snouted species of the Miocene pontoporiid dolphin Brachydelphis and a review of the Mio-Pliocene marine mammal levels in the Sacaco Basin, Peru3
- A new late Miocene condor (Aves, Cathartidae) from Peru and the origin of South American condors1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Brachydelphis jahuayensis 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 Brachydelphis jahuayensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachydelphis jahuayensis 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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What may have been alongside itBrachydelphis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lambert and Muizon 2013