Saurocetes

Saurocetes is an extinct genus of probable iniid river dolphins from South America. Two species have been described: S. argentinus and S. gigas. It has been suggested that Saurocetes is a synonym of the possible platanistid Ischyrorhynchus.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontoceti
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Saurocetes 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

8 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

5 formations

Entre Rios — 27.08°S, 64.47°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WCamacho — 34.46°S, 57.83°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°W

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The named rock units Saurocetes 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.

Saurocetes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Saurocetes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Saurocetes, 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

8 references

Each of the 8 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 Saurocetes 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 Saurocetes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Saurocetes 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1871