Liolithax pappus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiolithaxPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Liolithax pappus 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- 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
2 formations
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Pungo River Formation1
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The named rock units Liolithax pappus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liolithax pappus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Liolithax pappus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Odontoceti4 sites
- Brevirostrodelphis dividum2 sites
- Cetorhinus2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Schizodelphis barnesi2 sites
- Xiphiacetus bossi2 sites
- Xiphiacetus cristatus2 sites
- Abertella aberta1 site
- Actinocyclus1 site
- Actinocyclus ingens1 site
- Actinocyclus octonarius1 site
- Actinocyclus tenellus1 site
- Actinoptychus marylandicus1 site
- Actinoptychus senarius1 site
- Actinoptychus virginicus1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Alopias superciliosus1 site
- Alopias vulpinus1 site
- Aluterus1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anaulus mediterraneus intermedia1 site
- Ankylorhiza1 site
- Ankylorhiza tiedemani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Liolithax pappus, 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
3 references- Miocene Toothed Whales (Odontoceti) from Calvert Cliffs, Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA2
- Three Miocene porpoises from the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland2
- Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina1
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
Media content0
No picture of Liolithax pappus 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 Liolithax pappus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liolithax pappus 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 itLiolithax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kellogg 1955)