Pomatodelphis

Pomatodelphis

Geekgecko · CC BY 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
PlatanistidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Platanistidae
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 30 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.1–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya9.4 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

30 occurrences of Pomatodelphis 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

30 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

9 formations

Peace River — 27.75°N, 81.98°WPeace River — 27.89°N, 81.97°WPeace River — 27.83°N, 81.84°WPeace River — 27.84°N, 81.86°WChoptank — 38.47°N, 76.48°WCalvert — 38.44°N, 76.44°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WMarks Head — 29.90°N, 82.10°WCitronelle — 30.79°N, 88.10°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WStatenville — 30.40°N, 83.00°WSt. Marys — 38.35°N, 76.39°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°W

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The named rock units Pomatodelphis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pomatodelphis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pomatodelphis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pomatodelphis, 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

16 references

Each of the 30 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. 4 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

Picture of Pomatodelphis

Credit
Geekgecko
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pomatodelphis 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 itPlatanistidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allen 1921