Waipatiidae

Waipatiidae is an extinct family of odontocetes currently known from the Oligocene of the Pacific Ocean and possibly Europe and the Caucasus.

Waipatiidae

Tanaka Y, Fordyce RE · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatanistoideaPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 9 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya15.98 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

18 occurrences of Waipatiidae 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

18 occurrences

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

9 formations

Otekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.62°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.80°S, 170.53°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.95°S, 170.65°EGlobigerina Limestone — 35.90°N, 14.33°EGlobigerina Limestone — 36.03°N, 14.21°EGlobigerina Limestone — 35.90°N, 14.36°EJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EEl Cien — 25.19°N, 110.91°WLower Main Phosphate Conglomerate — 35.90°N, 14.34°EKaipuke — 40.68°S, 172.39°EWaima — 42.43°S, 173.72°EAshley — 32.83°N, 79.99°WKokoamu Greensand — 44.96°S, 170.66°E

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The named rock units Waipatiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Waipatiidae and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Waipatiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Waipatiidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Waipatiidae

Credit
Tanaka Y, Fordyce RE
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Waipatiidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlatanistoidea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fordyce 1994