Herpetocetus morrowi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HerpetocetusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Mysticeti
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mysticeti

Time the record covers

At most 1.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1 Mya2.08 Mya

19 occurrences of Herpetocetus morrowi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

19 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

1 formation

San Diego — 32.76°N, 117.14°WSan Diego — 32.64°N, 117.01°WSan Diego — 32.63°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.68°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.75°N, 117.18°W

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The named rock units Herpetocetus morrowi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Herpetocetus morrowi and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Herpetocetus morrowi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Herpetocetus morrowi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 19 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Herpetocetus morrowi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Herpetocetus morrowi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Herpetocetus morrowi 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 itHerpetocetus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. El Adli et al. 2014