Indocetus ramani
No picture of Indocetus ramani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Indocetus ramani itself, so it was not used. 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 Indocetus ramani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IndocetusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cetacea
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cetacea
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Indocetus ramani on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Indocetus ramani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Indocetus ramani and its relatives
EoceneWhere Indocetus ramani and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Andrewsiphius sloani2 sites
- Kharodacetus sahnii2 sites
- Moeritheriidae2 sites
- Arius1 site
- Babiacetus indicus1 site
- Babiacetus mishrai1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dalanistes ahmedi1 site
- Eosiren1 site
- Eotheroides babiae1 site
- Eotheroides waghapadarensis1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
- Kutchicetus minimus1 site
- Myliobatis tewarii1 site
- Protosiren1 site
- Pycnodus1 site
- Remingtonocetus harudiensis1 site
- Rodhocetus kasranii1 site
- Socnopaea horai1 site
- Trionyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Indocetus ramani, 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
3 references- Protocetid cetaceans (Mammalia) from the Eocene of India1
- Partial skeletons of Indocetus ramani (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the lower Middle Eocene Domanda Shale in the Sulaiman Range of Punjab (Pakistan)1
- Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India1
Each of the 3 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 Indocetus ramani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Indocetus ramani itself, so it was not used.
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 Indocetus ramani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Indocetus ramani was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itIndocetus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sahni and Mishra 1975