Mixocetus
No picture of Mixocetus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Mixocetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TranatocetidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Mysticeti
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mysticeti
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.
3 occurrences of Mixocetus 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
3 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
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The named rock units Mixocetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mixocetus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mixocetus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Aethia1 site
- Albireonidae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Atocetus nasalis1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Carangidae1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cepphus1 site
- Delphinapterinae1 site
- Dermochelys1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Dusisiren1 site
- Dusisiren jordani1 site
- Epinephelus1 site
- Fraterculini1 site
- Gavia brodkorbi1 site
- Herpetocetinae1 site
- Hexanchus1 site
- Imagotaria downsi1 site
- Kogiidae1 site
- Messapicetus1 site
- Miomancalla wetmorei1 site
- Miosula media1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mixocetus, 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- Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California1
- A New Miocene Cetothere (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Monterey Formation at Laguna Niguel, Orange County1
- A new cetothere from the Modelo Formation at Los Angeles, California1
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 Mixocetus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mixocetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mixocetus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTranatocetidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellogg 1934