Halitheriinae

Halitheriinae

Nobu Tamura · CC BY 3.0 · 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
DugongidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dugongidae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Sirenia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sirenia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 42 of 294 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 294 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 208 of 294 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 294 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 294 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 16 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 17 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 30 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 25 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 19 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 24 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 19 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 20 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 21 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

294 occurrences of Halitheriinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

294 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

62 formations

Burgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.66°N, 15.79°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.60°N, 15.86°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.74°N, 15.90°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.76°N, 15.95°ECalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 37.66°N, 77.11°WCalvert — 38.74°N, 76.56°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSahabi — 30.14°N, 20.75°ESahabi — 30.00°N, 20.00°EPeace River — 27.91°N, 81.99°WPeace River — 27.70°N, 81.85°WPeace River — 28.67°N, 80.91°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.78°N, 81.94°WPeace River — 29.68°N, 82.37°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.58°N, 30.57°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.52°N, 30.63°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.62°N, 30.69°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.57°N, 30.55°EBirket Qarun — 29.57°N, 30.56°EBirket Qarun — 29.56°N, 30.51°EBirket Qarun — 29.62°N, 30.70°ELeitha — 47.81°N, 16.63°ELeitha — 48.01°N, 16.78°ELeitha — 47.83°N, 16.45°ELeitha — 47.75°N, 16.68°ELeitha — 47.97°N, 16.61°ETorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WTorreya — 30.60°N, 84.58°WOrizzonte di Roncà — 45.81°N, 11.29°EPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WSabbie di Asti — 45.07°N, 8.10°ESabbie di Asti — 44.77°N, 8.36°ESabbie di Asti — 44.70°N, 7.85°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EAmpelouzos — 35.14°N, 24.99°EAmpelouzos — 35.06°N, 24.94°ERoka — 35.61°N, 23.84°ERoka — 35.50°N, 23.67°EAchladia — 35.20°N, 26.16°EAchladia — 35.20°N, 26.09°ESamlat — 23.38°N, 16.01°WSamlat — 23.34°N, 16.05°WJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.70°EJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EMores — 40.74°N, 8.51°EVic Marls — 41.85°N, 2.23°ESables à Gryphaea virleti — 43.61°N, 3.88°ELeitha — 48.74°N, 16.71°EWeissenegg — 46.74°N, 15.56°EParachucla — 30.33°N, 82.73°W

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The named rock units Halitheriinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 143 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Halitheriinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Halitheriinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,445 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 269 sites for Halitheriinae, 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

128 references

Each of the 294 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. 116 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 Halitheriinae

Credit
Nobu Tamura
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gill 1872)