Dorudon atrox

Dorudon atrox

Tim Evanson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
DorudonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Dorudon
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Dorudon
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Dorudon
Environment
marinePBDB, for Dorudon

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 52 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41.5 Mya33.4 Mya

52 occurrences of Dorudon atrox on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

52 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

Birket Qarun — 29.28°N, 30.04°EBirket Qarun — 29.48°N, 30.63°EBirket Qarun — 29.53°N, 30.72°EBirket Qarun — 29.54°N, 30.40°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.20°EBirket Qarun — 29.32°N, 30.05°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EGehannam — 29.31°N, 30.06°EGehannam — 29.36°N, 30.16°ESamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WSamlat — 23.00°N, 16.06°WSamlat — 23.30°N, 16.06°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.57°N, 30.57°EDaba'a — 29.16°N, 27.43°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°E

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The named rock units Dorudon atrox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dorudon atrox and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dorudon atrox and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Dorudon atrox, 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

13 references

Each of the 52 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. 1 further reference is 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 Dorudon atrox

Credit
Tim Evanson
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dorudon atrox 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 itDorudon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Andrews 1906)