Herpetocetinae

Herpetocetinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CetotheriidaePBDB
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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 66 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 44 of 66 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13.82 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

66 occurrences of Herpetocetinae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

66 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

25 formations

San Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.76°N, 117.14°WSan Diego — 32.64°N, 117.01°WSan Diego — 32.63°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.68°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.75°N, 117.18°WPurisima — 36.96°N, 121.96°WPurisima — 37.28°N, 122.41°WTatsunokuchi — 38.33°N, 140.81°ETatsunokuchi — 39.07°N, 141.18°ETatsunokuchi — 38.98°N, 141.12°ETatsunokuchi — 38.86°N, 141.04°EMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WSanta Margarita — 37.00°N, 122.00°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WKattendijk — 51.26°N, 4.27°EKattendijk — 51.17°N, 4.85°ETowsley — 34.40°N, 118.45°WInagozawa — 35.15°N, 140.32°EFujina — 35.45°N, 133.06°ERed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°ENa-arai — 35.81°N, 140.81°ERosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WTorgugas — 27.15°N, 114.30°WDiest — 51.22°N, 4.46°EGroote Heide — 52.04°N, 6.67°EYushima — 38.98°N, 141.12°EZushi — 35.29°N, 139.59°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.23°EFalor — 40.76°N, 123.87°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WWaccamaw — 33.10°N, 80.31°WHorokaoshirarika — 43.84°N, 141.88°E

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The named rock units Herpetocetinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Herpetocetinae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Herpetocetinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

851 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Herpetocetinae, 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

27 references

Each of the 66 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. 15 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 Herpetocetinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Herpetocetinae 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.

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What may have been alongside itCetotheriidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steeman 2007