Isocetus depauwi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsocetusPBDB
- 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 most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Isocetus depauwi 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Isocetus depauwi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Isocetus depauwi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Isocetus depauwi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Phocidae2 sites
- Xiphiacetus cristatus2 sites
- Abra1 site
- Acipenser1 site
- Aporotus recurvirostris1 site
- Aquilophusus puggaardi1 site
- Aquilophusus semiglaber1 site
- Archaeoziphius microglenoideus1 site
- Archimediella1 site
- Astarte vetula reimersi1 site
- Bathytoma cataphracta1 site
- Carcharomodus escheri1 site
- Carinastarte vetula reinersi1 site
- Cetorhinus1 site
- Chrysodomus (Sipho)1 site
- Cochlodesma1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Dagonodum mojnum1 site
- Eudelphis mortezelensis1 site
- Eurhinodelphis cocheteuxi1 site
- Eurhinodelphis longirostris1 site
- Galeocerdo1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Graamocetus longicollis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Isocetus depauwi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Isocetus depauwi 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 Isocetus depauwi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isocetus depauwi 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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What may have been alongside itIsocetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Van Beneden and Gervais 1868)