Delphininae

Delphininae

NOAA, Scott Hill · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelphinidaePBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Delphinidae
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 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 173 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 173 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 50 of 173 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 23 of 173 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 101 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

173 occurrences of Delphininae on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

173 occurrences

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

22 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WTangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.92°N, 1.34°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°EPisco — 15.56°S, 74.69°WNorwich Crag — 52.31°N, 1.40°ENorwich Crag — 52.47°N, 1.59°EWhaler's Bluff — 38.36°S, 141.60°EIimuro — 35.52°N, 139.72°EIimuro — 35.62°N, 139.57°EKattendijk — 51.17°N, 4.85°ESabbie d'Asti — 44.96°N, 8.06°ESabbie d'Asti — 44.95°N, 8.11°ECaracoles — 15.07°S, 75.01°WTatsunokuchi — 38.33°N, 140.81°ETalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WSan Mateo — 33.21°N, 117.38°WTirabuzon — 27.31°N, 112.25°WSalada — 24.69°N, 111.51°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WMerced — 38.49°N, 122.85°WGroote Heide — 52.10°N, 6.65°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°EIchijiku — 35.27°N, 139.98°EKuyal'nikian — 46.46°N, 30.73°E

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The named rock units Delphininae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 134 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Delphininae, 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

87 references

Each of the 173 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. 75 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Delphininae

Credit
NOAA, Scott Hill
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Delphininae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1867