Acrodelphinidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OdontocetiPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
13 occurrences of Acrodelphinidae 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
- Holíč Formation1
- Leitha Formation · Baden Group1
- Burgeschleinitz Formation1
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The named rock units Acrodelphinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acrodelphinidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acrodelphinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Balaenopteridae5 sites
- Odontoceti5 sites
- Metaxytherium medium3 sites
- Pachyacanthus suessii3 sites
- Cetacea2 sites
- Dorcatherium naui2 sites
- Kentriodon fuchsii2 sites
- Metaxytherium2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Pachyacanthus2 sites
- Phocidae2 sites
- Sirenia2 sites
- Tapiridae2 sites
- Testudo2 sites
- Trionyx2 sites
- Albanohyus1 site
- Allomorone1 site
- Amphicyon major1 site
- Amphicyon major eppelsheimensis1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphimoschus ponteleviensis1 site
- Anchitherium aurelianense1 site
- Andrias scheuchzeri1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Acrodelphinidae, 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
7 references- Katalog der in den Osterreichischen sammlungen befindlichen Saugetierreste des Jung-Tertiars Osterreichs un der Randgebiete6
- Sur quelques mammiferes du crag d'Anvers2
- The new findings of dolphin in Slovenia from Middle Miocene beds near Bela Cerkev in Lower Carniola1
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
- Das Sternberger Gestein un seine Artenzahl - Stand 19941
- The Denticeti of the western Paratethys (Upper Marine Molasse of Switzerland)1
- Decouverte d'un faune de Mammiferes terrestres d'age vallesien dans le falun miocene de Doue-la-fontaine (Maine-et-Loire)1
Each of the 13 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Acrodelphinidae 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 Acrodelphinidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrodelphinidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOdontoceti through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Abel 1905