Stenella

Searched as Clymenia. The Paleobiology Database treats Stenella as the accepted name.

No picture of Stenella was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Stenella itself, so it was not used. 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 Stenella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelphininaePBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Delphinidae
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti

Time the record covers

At least 358 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 38 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 38 occurrences380–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–354 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences358.86 Mya11.7 ka380 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Stenella on record. 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

38 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

11 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WIimuro — 35.52°N, 139.72°EIimuro — 35.62°N, 139.57°EPiker Hills — 18.00°S, 125.50°EClanmeyer Siltstone — 18.00°S, 125.50°ESan Mateo — 33.21°N, 117.38°WTirabuzon — 27.31°N, 112.25°WSalada — 24.69°N, 111.51°WPisco — 15.56°S, 74.69°WCaracoles — 15.07°S, 75.01°WGatepost — 50.61°N, 4.37°WThalenberg — 50.71°N, 8.18°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Stenella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Stenella, 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

23 references

Each of the 38 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. 11 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 Stenella was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Stenella itself, so it was not used.

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 Stenella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stenella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDelphininae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1864)