Parietobalaena palmeri

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- ParietobalaenaPBDB
- 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 least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
11 occurrences of Parietobalaena palmeri 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
11 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
1 formation
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group10
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The named rock units Parietobalaena palmeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parietobalaena palmeri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parietobalaena palmeri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Xiphiacetus bossi5 sites
- Metaxytherium crataegense4 sites
- Mesocetus siphunculus3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Acipenser ornatus2 sites
- Albula2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Astarte cuneiformis2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Castanea2 sites
- Cicuta2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
- Cyperaceae2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Engelhardia2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Ilex2 sites
- Juglans2 sites
- Keasius parvus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Parietobalaena palmeri, 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
4 references- USNM Chesapeake Group Cetacean Collection Data5
- Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity3
- Geology and biostratigraphy of the Potomac River Cliffs at Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia2
- Description of a new genus and species of whalebone whale from the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland1
Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Parietobalaena palmeri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ryan Somma
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parietobalaena palmeri 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 itParietobalaena through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellogg 1924