Parietobalaena yamaokai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParietobalaenaPBDB
- 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 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Parietobalaena yamaokai 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
4 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
- Itahashi Formation · Bihoku Group2
- Korematsu Formation · Bihoku Group2
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The named rock units Parietobalaena yamaokai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parietobalaena yamaokai and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parietobalaena yamaokai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Cardium1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Cultellus1 site
- Diorocetus shobarensis1 site
- Diplodonta1 site
- Helicosphaera ampliaperta1 site
- Hibacetus hirosei1 site
- Odontoceti1 site
- Sphenolithus heteromorphus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parietobalaena yamaokai, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- An additional fossil mysticete form the Middle Bihoku Group, Hiroshima, Japan2
- A fossil mysticete from the middle Miocene Bihoku Group, Hiroshima, Japan1
- Cetotheres from the early Middle Miocene Bihoku Group in Shobara District, Hiroshima Prefecture, West Japan1
Each of the 4 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 Parietobalaena yamaokai 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 Parietobalaena yamaokai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parietobalaena yamaokai 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 itParietobalaena through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Otsuka and Ota 2008