Palimphemus

No picture of Palimphemus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Palimphemus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GadidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37.71 Mya5.333 Mya41.8 Mya1.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Palimphemus 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

16 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

6 formations

Hrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ETavda — 56.92°N, 65.82°ELeitha — 47.80°N, 16.63°E

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The named rock units Palimphemus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palimphemus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palimphemus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Palimphemus, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content0

No picture of Palimphemus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Palimphemus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palimphemus 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 itGadidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kner 1862