Eurhinodelphinidae

Eurhinodelphinidae is an extinct family of toothed whales which lived from the Oligocene to the Miocene. Members of the family possessed an elongated jaw similar in appearance to a swordfish.

Eurhinodelphinidae

Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0 · 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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 6 of 203 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 195 of 203 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 203 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 203 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 11 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 11 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 22 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 20 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 19 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 17 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya9.4 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

203 occurrences of Eurhinodelphinidae 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

203 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

32 formations

Calvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.74°N, 76.56°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.20°N, 76.94°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 37.77°N, 77.37°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WCalvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 38.38°N, 76.99°WCalvert — 37.22°N, 76.96°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.77°N, 76.78°WBerchem — 51.17°N, 4.46°EBerchem — 51.22°N, 4.42°EBerchem — 51.15°N, 4.63°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EPietra Leccese — 40.35°N, 18.17°EPietra Leccese — 40.16°N, 18.29°EGroote Heide — 52.04°N, 6.67°EGroote Heide — 52.10°N, 6.65°ELibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°EDiest — 51.19°N, 4.49°EDiest — 51.18°N, 4.83°ENamba — 31.23°S, 140.23°ENamba — 31.02°S, 140.32°EChilcatay — 14.77°S, 75.39°WChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.63°Wmolasse coquillière — 43.55°N, 3.70°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EBreda — 51.97°N, 6.73°ESalsomaggiore — 44.73°N, 10.03°EOidawara — 35.52°N, 137.08°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WMoghara — 30.30°N, 30.00°EMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°EMarks Head — 32.83°N, 79.99°WMount Harris — 45.14°S, 170.94°ESt. Gallen — 47.28°N, 8.04°ENataki — 34.34°N, 132.05°EGaiman — 43.30°S, 65.42°WLibano — 45.98°N, 12.76°EPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°ESables des Landes — 43.94°N, 0.75°W

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The named rock units Eurhinodelphinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eurhinodelphinidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eurhinodelphinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Eurhinodelphinidae, 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

86 references

Each of the 203 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. 74 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 Eurhinodelphinidae

Credit
Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eurhinodelphinidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itOdontoceti through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Abel 1901)