Grampus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlobicephalinaePBDB
- 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 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
19 occurrences of Grampus 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
19 occurrences- Miocene6%
- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene1%
- Holocene84%
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 the same rock
84 taxa- Delphinus delphis3 sites
- Physeter macrocephalus3 sites
- Balaenoptera musculus2 sites
- Balaenoptera physalus2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Globicephala macrorhynchus2 sites
- Kogia2 sites
- Mysticeti2 sites
- Sus scrofa2 sites
- Tursiops truncatus2 sites
- Ziphiidae2 sites
- Acipenser1 site
- Alces1 site
- Alectoris graeca1 site
- Alopias superciliosus1 site
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Balaena1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Balaenotus1 site
- Berardius bairdii1 site
- Bison priscus1 site
- Bos primigenius1 site
- Bos taurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Grampus, 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
8 references- Preliminary estimates of the abundance of cetaceans along the U.S. west coast: 1991-200111
- Catalog of Living Whales2
- The Kor & Bot collection revisited, with a biostratigraphic interpretation of the Early Pleistocene Oosterschelde Fauna (Oosterschelde Estuary, the Netherlands)1
- Climate-driven environmental changes around 8,200 years ago favoured increases in cetacean strandings and Mediterranean hunter-gatherers exploited them1
- Cetacans of Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexcico1
- A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan1
- Dents de requins et bulles tympaniques de cetaces: Noyaux de nodules polymetalliques recoltes dans L'Ocean Indien1
- Fossil atlases of dolphins from the Mawaki Site, Noto Peninsula1
Each of the 19 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 content2

Picture of Grampus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1828)