Pachycetus

No picture of Pachycetus 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 Pachycetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachycetinaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 47 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 47 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

47 occurrences of Pachycetus 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

47 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

11 formations

Gehlberg — 52.22°N, 11.01°EGehlberg — 52.14°N, 11.00°EKiev — 50.35°N, 30.53°EKiev — 48.45°N, 39.65°EKiev — 49.08°N, 33.13°EKiev — 49.06°N, 32.95°EKiev — 48.30°N, 33.27°ECastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.67°WCastle Hayne — 34.42°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WCastle Hayne — 34.84°N, 77.55°WCastle Hayne — 35.31°N, 77.15°WKharkov — 47.72°N, 42.20°EAridal — 25.15°N, 13.32°WAridal — 25.44°N, 13.72°WStockletten — 47.80°N, 12.17°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WMaldegem — 51.41°N, 3.55°EParacas — 14.67°S, 75.64°WPiney Point — 37.60°N, 77.09°WGiushi — 30.04°N, 31.28°E

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The named rock units Pachycetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachycetus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pachycetus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Pachycetus, 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

17 references

Each of the 47 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pachycetus sp. · NMR:3404

No picture of Pachycetus 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 Pachycetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itPachycetinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Beneden 1883