Sachalinocetus
No picture of Sachalinocetus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sachalinocetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OdontocetiPBDB
- 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 most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 20.45 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sachalinocetus 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
- Kholmsk Formation1
- Morawan Formation · Kawakami Group1
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The named rock units Sachalinocetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sachalinocetus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Sachalinocetus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Chonecetus tomitai1 site
- Kentriodontidae1 site
- Odontoceti indet.1 site
- Physeteroidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sachalinocetus, 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
2 references- Late Oligocene Cetacea from Ashoro-cho, Hokkaido, Japan; The fauna and its ecologic implications1
- Novy rod kitoobraznykh (Sachalinocetus cholmicus gen. et sp. nov.) iz miotsena o-va Sakalin [Sachalinocetus cholmicus n. gen, n. sp. (Cetacea) from the Miocene of Sakhalin1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Sachalinocetus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Sachalinocetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sachalinocetus 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 itOdontoceti through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Siryk and Dubrovo 1970