Kogiinae

Kogiinae, also called little sperm whales is a subfamily of sperm whales in the family Kogiidae. It comprises the extant genus Kogia and the extinct geners Praekogia and Pliokogia.

Kogiinae

Martina Nolte · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · 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
KogiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontoceti
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 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Kogiinae 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

43 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

6 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WAlmejas — 28.37°N, 115.18°WAlmejas — 28.11°N, 115.18°WChagres Sandstone — 9.27°N, 80.05°WChagres Sandstone — 9.29°N, 80.04°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.56°S, 74.69°WSalsomaggiore — 44.73°N, 10.03°EArgille Azzurre — 44.72°N, 10.08°E

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The named rock units Kogiinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

643 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Kogiinae, 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

23 references

Each of the 43 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. 11 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 Kogiinae

Credit
Martina Nolte
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kogiinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Gill 1871