Delphinida

Delphinida is a clade of cetaceans in the parvorder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. It includes all modern oceanic dolphins, porpoises, and their relatives, such as Lipotidae and Iniidae.

Delphinida

Jessica Redfern (according to photo caption) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
OdontocetiPBDB
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 least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 6 of 1223 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 463 of 1223 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 233 of 1223 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 142 of 1223 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 13 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 17 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 30 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 30 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 27 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 46 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 42 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 32 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 32 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 33 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 34 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 34 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 34 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 67 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 77 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 82 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 44 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 28 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 466 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

1,223 occurrences of Delphinida 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

1,223 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

178 formations

Pisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.44°S, 74.87°WPisco — 14.56°S, 75.67°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 14.52°S, 75.71°WPisco — 14.33°S, 75.90°WPisco — 14.31°S, 75.81°WPisco — 14.45°S, 75.75°WPisco — 14.79°S, 75.51°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 77.16°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.50°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.22°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 37.54°N, 77.43°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.07°N, 76.92°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.85°WCalvert — 38.20°N, 76.94°WCalvert — 38.38°N, 76.99°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 38.42°N, 76.62°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 36.45°N, 77.08°WYorktown — 37.04°N, 76.36°WMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 118.35°WMonterey — 35.95°N, 120.41°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPurisima — 36.92°N, 121.85°WPurisima — 38.05°N, 122.94°WPurisima — 37.29°N, 122.41°WPurisima — 36.98°N, 121.95°WPurisima — 36.97°N, 121.92°WBahía Inglesa — 27.08°S, 70.84°WBahía Inglesa — 27.14°S, 70.88°WBahía Inglesa — 27.16°S, 70.89°WBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.79°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.92°N, 1.34°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.91°N, 1.36°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.45°N, 1.73°ETemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WTemblor — 35.44°N, 118.88°WAlmejas — 28.11°N, 115.18°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WPeace River — 27.83°N, 81.97°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.81°N, 81.91°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.17°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.64°N, 117.03°WChilcatay — 14.77°S, 75.39°WChilcatay — 14.59°S, 75.64°WSanta Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.04°WSanta Margarita — 34.61°N, 119.44°WSanta Margarita — 37.00°N, 122.00°WSanta Margarita — 35.45°N, 120.28°WSanta Margarita — 36.20°N, 121.08°WTangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°ESolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 7.66°S, 72.54°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°EPietra Leccese — 40.35°N, 18.17°EPietra Leccese — 39.89°N, 18.33°EPietra Leccese — 40.14°N, 18.07°EPietra Leccese — 40.15°N, 18.50°ESan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WEntre Rios — 27.08°S, 64.47°WEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WHaraichi — 36.17°N, 138.67°EHaraichi — 36.32°N, 138.88°EHaraichi — 36.25°N, 139.00°ERed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.09°N, 1.31°ESabbie d'Asti — 45.03°N, 11.85°ESabbie d'Asti — 45.00°N, 8.03°ESabbie d'Asti — 45.00°N, 8.09°ESabbie d'Asti — 44.95°N, 8.11°E

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The named rock units Delphinida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 154 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 677 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Delphinida and its relatives

Miocene

Where Delphinida and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,441 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 862 sites for Delphinida, 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

490 references

Each of the 1,223 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. 478 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 Delphinida

Credit
Jessica Redfern (according to photo caption)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Muizon 1984