Balaenoptera

Searched as Physalis. The Paleobiology Database treats Balaenoptera as the accepted name.

No picture of Balaenoptera was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Balaenoptera itself, so it was not used. 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 Balaenoptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalaenopteridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Balaenopteridae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mysticeti

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 198 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 198 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 198 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 198 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 40 of 198 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 198 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 23 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 22 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 117 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

198 occurrences of Balaenoptera on record. 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

198 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

45 formations

Namba — 34.67°N, 135.54°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 37.20°N, 76.91°WSan Diego — 32.63°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.72°N, 117.16°WPurisima — 38.03°N, 122.96°WPurisima — 37.28°N, 122.41°WHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.56°S, 74.69°WHaraichi — 36.32°N, 138.88°EHaraichi — 36.17°N, 138.67°EOsarushinai — 42.92°N, 143.45°EBahía Inglesa — 27.14°S, 70.88°WBahía Inglesa — 27.08°S, 70.84°WMonterey — 36.60°N, 121.89°WAlmejas — 28.11°N, 115.18°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.67°WWhaler's Bluff — 38.36°S, 141.60°EGoodwood — 37.91°S, 142.37°EGrange Burn — 37.73°S, 141.94°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°ECameron Inlet — 39.98°S, 148.08°ESahabi — 30.14°N, 20.75°ETangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°ECalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WSanta Vitória — 33.53°S, 53.37°WParana — 31.38°S, 60.23°WKubota — 36.95°N, 140.41°E

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The named rock units Balaenoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 135 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Balaenoptera, 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

102 references

Each of the 198 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. 90 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
3dhdscan
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No picture of Balaenoptera was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Balaenoptera itself, so it was not used.

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 Balaenoptera, 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1822