Australithax
No picture of Australithax 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 Australithax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhocoenidaePBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Phocoenidae
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
2 occurrences of Australithax 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Australithax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Australithax and its relatives
MioceneWhere Australithax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Isurus oxyrinchus2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Phalacrocorax2 sites
- Phocoenidae2 sites
- Sula2 sites
- Alopias vulpinus1 site
- Alosidae1 site
- Antidorcas1 site
- Antilopini1 site
- Arctocephalus1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Balistidae1 site
- Bathyergidae1 site
- Brachydelphis jahuayensis1 site
- Brachydelphis mazeasi1 site
- Calonectris1 site
- Carcharhinus egertoni1 site
- Carcharias taurus1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Ceratotherium1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Connochaetes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Australithax, 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 references- Fossil cetaceans from Duinefontein (Koeberg) an early Pliocene site on the southwestern Cape, South Africa1
- Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene1
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. 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 Australithax 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 Australithax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Australithax 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 itPhocoenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muizon 1988