Aglaocetus longifrons
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AglaocetusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Mysticeti
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mysticeti
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Aglaocetus longifrons 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aglaocetus longifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aglaocetus longifrons and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aglaocetus longifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Parietobalaena laxata2 sites
- Physeterula dubusi2 sites
- Aglaocetus latifrons1 site
- Amphicetus1 site
- Balaenoptera1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Balaenula balaenopsis1 site
- Eurhinodelphis cocheteuxi1 site
- Eurhinodelphis longirostris1 site
- Herpetocetus scaldiensis1 site
- Heterocetus1 site
- Heterocetus brevifrons1 site
- Isocetus1 site
- Mesocetus1 site
- Mesocetus longirostris1 site
- Monotherium1 site
- Mysticeti1 site
- Nanophoca vitulinoides1 site
- Odontoceti1 site
- Ontocetus1 site
- Parietobalaena affinis1 site
- Phocaenopsis scheynensis1 site
- Phocidae1 site
- Physeteridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aglaocetus longifrons, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Aglaocetus longifrons 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 Aglaocetus longifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aglaocetus longifrons 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.
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What may have been alongside itAglaocetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Van Beneden 1880)