Xiphiacetus bossi

Xiphiacetus bossi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphiacetusPBDB
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 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 24 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.5–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya13.82 Mya20.9 Mya4.8 Mya

24 occurrences of Xiphiacetus bossi 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

24 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

3 formations

Calvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 37.22°N, 76.96°WCalvert — 38.21°N, 76.94°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.38°N, 76.99°WCalvert — 38.74°N, 76.56°WCalvert — 38.77°N, 76.78°WBerchem — 51.17°N, 4.46°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°EPietra Leccese — 40.16°N, 18.29°E

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The named rock units Xiphiacetus bossi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Xiphiacetus bossi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Xiphiacetus bossi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Xiphiacetus bossi, 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

8 references

Each of the 24 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 content2

Picture of Xiphiacetus bossi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itXiphiacetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kellogg 1925)