Zarhachis flagellator
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZarhachisPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Platanistidae
- 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 11.63 Mya.
5 occurrences of Zarhachis flagellator 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Cantaure Formation1
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The named rock units Zarhachis flagellator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zarhachis flagellator and its relatives
MioceneWhere Zarhachis flagellator and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Carcharias cuspidatus3 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus3 sites
- Hemipristis serra3 sites
- Odontoceti3 sites
- Physogaleus contortus3 sites
- Aetobatis arcuatus2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Bicorbula idonea2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Chelone2 sites
- Eburneopecten cerinus2 sites
- Florimetis biplicata2 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens2 sites
- Myliobatis gigas2 sites
- Myliobatis pachyodon2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Otodus obliquus2 sites
- Pantrionychidae2 sites
- Sphyraenodus speciosus2 sites
- Sphyrna laevissima2 sites
- Sphyrna magna2 sites
- Sphyrna prisca2 sites
- Squalodon calvertensis2 sites
- Tayassuidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zarhachis flagellator, 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
5 references- Fossil Cetaceans (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Neogene of Colombia and Venezuela1
- Fossil marine mammals of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Delaware1
- A fossil porpoise from the Calvert Formation of Maryland1
- Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations1
- Second contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Miocene period of the United States1
Each of the 5 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 content1
Picture of Zarhachis flagellator
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Zarhachis flagellator 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 itZarhachis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1868