Dorudon serratus
No picture of Dorudon serratus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dorudon serratus 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 Dorudon serratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dorudon serratus 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Dorudon serratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dorudon serratus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dorudon serratus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Bryozoa1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Cynthiacetus maxwelli1 site
- Echinozoa1 site
- Entelodontidae1 site
- Eupatagus (Brissopatagus) alabamensis1 site
- Huberophis georgiensis1 site
- Ogmophis voorhiesi1 site
- Pelobatidae1 site
- Peronella cubae1 site
- Pterosphenus schucherti1 site
- Sirenia1 site
- Venericor planicosta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dorudon serratus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 review of North American Basilosauridae2
- Description of the teeth of a new fossil animal found in the Green Sand of South Carolina1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- UIPaleoRepository
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Dorudon serratus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dorudon serratus 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 Dorudon serratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDorudon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gibbes 1845)