Messapicetus gregarius

No picture of Messapicetus gregarius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Messapicetus gregarius 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 Messapicetus gregarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MessapicetusPBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ziphiidae
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.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocene12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10.0–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya6.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Messapicetus gregarius 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

4 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

Pisco — 14.34°S, 75.91°W

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

Messapicetus gregarius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Messapicetus gregarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Messapicetus gregarius, 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

Each of the 4 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 Messapicetus gregarius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Messapicetus gregarius 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 Messapicetus gregarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Messapicetus gregarius 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 itMessapicetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bianucci et al. 2010