Hoplocetus crassidens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HoplocetusPBDB
- 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 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
5 occurrences of Hoplocetus crassidens 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene20%
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
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The named rock units Hoplocetus crassidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hoplocetus crassidens and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hoplocetus crassidens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Balaenopteridae2 sites
- Choneziphius planirostris2 sites
- Herpetocetus scaldiensis2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
- Phocidae2 sites
- Plesiocetopsis hupschii2 sites
- Scaldicetus grandis2 sites
- Tetrabelodon angustidens2 sites
- Ziphiidae2 sites
- Aglaocetus burtinii1 site
- Allaeochelys parayrei1 site
- Balaena1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenotus insignis1 site
- Balaenula balaenopsis1 site
- Belemnoziphius compressus1 site
- Canis1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Cervus dicranocerus1 site
- Delphinidae1 site
- Delphinus1 site
- Delphinus delannoy1 site
- Dihoplus schleiermacheri1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hoplocetus crassidens, 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
4 references- Lydekker, 18872
- The Cetacea of the Suffolk Crag1
- Uber die fossilen Reste von Zahnwalen (Cetodonten) aus der Molasse von Baltringen OA. Laupheim1
- Rapport de M. Van Beneden1
Each of the 5 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. 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
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No picture of Hoplocetus crassidens 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 Hoplocetus crassidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hoplocetus crassidens 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 itHoplocetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais 1852