Schizodelphis

Schizodelphis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
EurhinodelphinidaePBDB
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 8.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.45 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

65 occurrences of Schizodelphis 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

65 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

15 formations

Calvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.74°N, 76.56°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.20°N, 76.94°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°Wmolasse coquillière — 43.55°N, 3.70°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EPietra Leccese — 40.35°N, 18.17°EPietra Leccese — 40.16°N, 18.29°EBerchem — 51.21°N, 4.43°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EMoghara — 30.30°N, 30.00°EMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°EGroote Heide — 52.04°N, 6.67°ESt. Gallen — 47.28°N, 8.04°ELibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°ESalsomaggiore — 44.73°N, 10.03°ELibano — 45.98°N, 12.76°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°ESables des Landes — 43.94°N, 0.75°WChateau Saint-Martin Shale — 43.58°N, 3.76°EChhasra — 23.44°N, 70.99°E

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The named rock units Schizodelphis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizodelphis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Schizodelphis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Schizodelphis, 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

36 references

Each of the 65 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. 24 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 Schizodelphis

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schizodelphis 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 itEurhinodelphinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais 1861