Globicephalinae

Globicephalinae is a subfamily of oceanic dolphins that includes the pilot whales, the pygmy killer whale, the rough-toothed dolphin, the false killer whale, the melon-headed whale, Risso's dolphin, and the snubfin dolphins.

Globicephalinae

Barney Moss · CC BY 2.0 · 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
DelphinidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 149 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 149 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 149 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 149 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 98 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

149 occurrences of Globicephalinae 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

149 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

23 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPurisima — 37.29°N, 122.41°WPurisima — 36.97°N, 121.92°WSanuki — 41.11°N, 141.26°ESanuki — 35.35°N, 140.07°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°ESalsomaggiore — 44.73°N, 10.03°ETangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°EPisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WGreta Siltstone — 42.97°S, 173.09°ENuma — 34.98°N, 139.87°EUmegase — 35.15°N, 140.32°ENakazato — 35.45°N, 139.65°ENakatsu — 38.97°N, 141.22°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ERojales Sandstone — 38.08°N, 0.68°WCuevas — 37.30°N, 1.88°WToukoushan — 24.40°N, 120.68°EWaccamaw — 33.10°N, 80.31°WOmma — 36.49°N, 136.72°EGoose Creek — 32.83°N, 79.99°WLindos — 36.07°N, 28.05°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°E

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The named rock units Globicephalinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 117 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

779 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 140 sites for Globicephalinae, 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

62 references

Each of the 149 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. 50 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 Globicephalinae

Credit
Barney Moss
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Globicephalinae 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.

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. (Gray 1866)