Xhosacetus hendeysi
No picture of Xhosacetus hendeysi 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 Xhosacetus hendeysi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XhosacetusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ziphiidae
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Xhosacetus hendeysi 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
2 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene11%
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.
Xhosacetus hendeysi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Xhosacetus hendeysi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Africanacetus ceratopsis1 site
- Berardiinae1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Carcharodon1 site
- Conus1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Eubalaena1 site
- Fusus1 site
- Istiophorus1 site
- Isurus1 site
- Izikoziphius rossi1 site
- Mesoplodon1 site
- Microberardius africanus1 site
- Mysticeti indet.1 site
- Natica1 site
- Nenga meganasalis1 site
- Odontoceti indet.1 site
- Pusionella1 site
- Turris1 site
- Veneridae1 site
- Xenophora1 site
- Ziphius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Xhosacetus hendeysi, 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- Neogene and Quaternary fossil remains of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from deep-sea deposits off Crozet and Kerguelen islands, Southern Ocean1
- A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa1
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 Xhosacetus hendeysi 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 Xhosacetus hendeysi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xhosacetus hendeysi 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.
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What may have been alongside itXhosacetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bianucci et al. 2007