Pelocetus mirabilis
No picture of Pelocetus mirabilis 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 Pelocetus mirabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelocetusPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pelocetus mirabilis 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
1 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.
Pelocetus mirabilis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pelocetus mirabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Acrodelphinidae1 site
- Albanohyus1 site
- Amphicyon major eppelsheimensis1 site
- Anchitherium aurelianense1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Brachypotherium brachypus1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Chalicomys1 site
- Conohyus simorrensis1 site
- Deinotherium giganteum1 site
- Dorcatherium1 site
- Dorcatherium naui1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Gomphotheriidae1 site
- Hadrodelphis1 site
- Hippotherium primigenium1 site
- Korynochoerus1 site
- Listriodon splendens1 site
- Metaxytherium medium1 site
- Mustelidae1 site
- Nannolithax gracilis1 site
- Odontoceti1 site
- Protragocerus chantrei1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pelocetus mirabilis, 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 1 occurrence 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 Pelocetus mirabilis 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 Pelocetus mirabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pelocetus mirabilis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPelocetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ginsburg and Janvier 1971