Mammalodon colliveri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MammalodonPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Mammalodon colliveri on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mammalodon colliveri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mammalodon colliveri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Mammalodon colliveri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens3 sites
- Carcharias taurus2 sites
- Carcharoides totuserratus2 sites
- Isurus2 sites
- Isurus desori2 sites
- Isurus desorii2 sites
- Janjucetus2 sites
- Janjucetus dullardi2 sites
- Lamna apiculata2 sites
- Mammalodontidae2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Mysticeti2 sites
- Odontaspis attenuata2 sites
- Oxyrhina minuta2 sites
- Astroconger rostratus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Carcharias contortidens1 site
- Carcharias macrotus1 site
- Carcharoides catticus1 site
- Carcharoides tenuidens1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mammalodon colliveri, 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
2 references- An immature toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia and insights into mammalodontid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) morphology, systematics, and ontogeny4
- On the discovery of a fossil whale in the older Tertiaries of Torquay, Victoria1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Mammalodon colliveri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mammalodon colliveri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMammalodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pritchard 1939