Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaorientalis

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred

Sits inside: PhocoenidaePBDB
Diet: piscivorePBDB, for Phocoenidae
Life habit: aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment: marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

1 occurrence of Neophocaena on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

Holocene100%

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.

Neophocaena and its relatives

Holocene

Where Neophocaena and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Neophocaena, 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 reference

The Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer): population status and conservation issues in the Yangtze River, ChinaZhang et al., 2003 · Aquatic conservation: Marine and freshwater ecosystems · journal article1

Each 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 content2

Picture of Neophocaena

Source: Wikidata/Commons
Credit: nobody named on the record
Licence: not stated by the source
Commercial use: cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source: Sketchfab
Credit: Gunma Museum of Natural History
Licence: CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use: the licence does not allow it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside it Phocoenidae through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1899