Ocucajea picklingi

Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- OcucajeaPBDB
- 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 7.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ocucajea picklingi 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ocucajea picklingi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ocucajea picklingi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ocucajea picklingi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ocucajea picklingi, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach 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 content1

Picture of Ocucajea picklingi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Connor Ashbridge
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ocucajea picklingi 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 itOcucajea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Uhen et al. 2011