Amphicetus later
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphicetusPBDB
- 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 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Amphicetus later 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Amphicetus later has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphicetus later and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amphicetus later and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Leptophoca proxima2 sites
- Mysticeti2 sites
- Phocidae2 sites
- Aglaocetus burtinii1 site
- Aglaocetus rotundus1 site
- Cetorhynchus atavus1 site
- Eurhinodelphis cocheteuxi1 site
- Eurhinodelphis longirostris1 site
- Herpetocetus scaldiensis1 site
- Nanophoca vitulinoides1 site
- Ontocetus1 site
- Ontocetus posti1 site
- Palaeocystodinium golzowense1 site
- Parietobalaena affinis1 site
- Physeteridae1 site
- Physeterula dubusi1 site
- Plesiocetopsis hupschii1 site
- Spiniferites pseudofurcatus1 site
- Ziphirostrum marginatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amphicetus later, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 references- Faune du Tertiare et du Pleistocene inferieur de Belgique (Oiseaux et mammiferes) Donnees paleontologiques1
- Les mysticetes a courts fanons des sables des environs d'anvers1
Each 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 Amphicetus later was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphicetus later, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphicetus later was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itAmphicetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Beneden 1880