Balaena montalionis
No picture of Balaena montalionis 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 Balaena montalionis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BalaenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Balaenidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mysticeti
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mysticeti
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Balaena montalionis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene100%
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.
Balaena montalionis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Balaena montalionis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Alca ausonia1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenoptera1 site
- Balaenotus1 site
- Balaenotus insignis1 site
- Balaenotus orcianensis1 site
- Balaenula1 site
- Balaenula balaenopsis1 site
- Cetotheriophanes capellinii1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Columba pisana1 site
- Delphinidae1 site
- Etruridelphis giulii1 site
- Fuligula arctina1 site
- Hemisyntrachelus1 site
- Hemisyntrachelus cortesii1 site
- Kogia1 site
- Kogia breviceps1 site
- Kogia sima1 site
- Lophius piscatorius1 site
- Mesocetus1 site
- Mesoplodon1 site
- Metaxytherium1 site
- Odontoceti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Balaena montalionis, 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
Media content0
No picture of Balaena montalionis 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 Balaena montalionis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balaena montalionis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBalaena through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Capellini 1904)