Cetacea

Searched as Cetotherium priscum. The Paleobiology Database treats Cetacea as the accepted name.

No picture of Cetacea 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 Cetacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CetaceaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 13 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13.82 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

15 occurrences of Cetacea 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

15 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

6 formations

Calvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WSables à Gryphaea virleti — 43.61°N, 3.88°EYorktown — 37.29°N, 77.30°WLeitha — 47.81°N, 16.63°EChoptank — 38.50°N, 76.51°WBlinovo — 45.27°N, 36.38°E

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The named rock units Cetacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cetacea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cetacea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,951 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,047 sites for Cetacea, and this reads 240 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

14 references

Each of the 15 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Cetacea 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 Cetacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cetacea 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 itCetacea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eichwald 1840)