Scaldicetus caretti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaldicetusPBDB
- 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 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
16 occurrences of Scaldicetus caretti 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
16 occurrences- Miocene61%
- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene27%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Scaldicetus caretti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scaldicetus caretti and its relatives
MioceneWhere Scaldicetus caretti and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Balaenopteridae5 sites
- Mysticeti5 sites
- Phocidae5 sites
- Acipenser3 sites
- Balaena3 sites
- Balaenidae3 sites
- Balaenula balaenopsis3 sites
- Choneziphius planirostris3 sites
- Heterocetus brevifrons3 sites
- Mammuthus meridionalis3 sites
- Ontocetus emmonsi3 sites
- Physeter3 sites
- Scaldicetus grandis3 sites
- Ziphiidae3 sites
- Alces2 sites
- Amphicetus2 sites
- Anancus arvernensis2 sites
- Balaenoptera musculus2 sites
- Belemnoziphius compressus2 sites
- Bison priscus2 sites
- Bos taurus2 sites
- Capra hircus2 sites
- Cetorhinus maximus2 sites
- Coelodonta antiquitatis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Scaldicetus caretti, 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
9 references- Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers4
- The Cetacea of the Suffolk Crag3
- The Kor & Bot collection revisited, with a biostratigraphic interpretation of the Early Pleistocene Oosterschelde Fauna (Oosterschelde Estuary, the Netherlands)2
- Sur quelques mammiferes du crag d'Anvers2
- A Miocene sperm whale (Cetacea, Physeteroidea) tooth from Liessel (Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands)1
- How to break a sperm whale's teeth: dental damage in a large Miocene physeteroid from the North Sea basin1
- Faune du Tertiare et du Pleistocene inferieur de Belgique (Oiseaux et mammiferes) Donnees paleontologiques1
- De fossiele Potvisch Scaldicetus caretti in Midden-Limburg aangetoond1
- Van Deinse, 19311
Each of the 16 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 Scaldicetus caretti 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 Scaldicetus caretti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scaldicetus caretti 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Du Bus 1867