Hoplocetus ritzi
No picture of Hoplocetus ritzi 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 ritzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hoplocetus ritzi 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 ritzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hoplocetus ritzi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hoplocetus ritzi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Aquilofusus1 site
- Araloselachus vorax1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Carcharias acutissima1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Carcharomodus escheri1 site
- Delphinoidea1 site
- Kentriodon hoepfneri1 site
- Physeteroidea1 site
- Praemegaptera pampauensis1 site
- Terebra1 site
- Thinocetus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hoplocetus ritzi, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Hoplocetus ritzi 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 ritzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hoplocetus ritzi 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. Hampe 2006