Macrorhizodus nolfi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacrorhizodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Macrorhizodus nolfi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Macrorhizodus nolfi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macrorhizodus nolfi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Macrorhizodus nolfi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Isurolamna inflata4 sites
- Otodus auriculatus4 sites
- Physogaleus secundus4 sites
- Striatolamia macrota4 sites
- Abdounia beaugei3 sites
- Burnhamia3 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis3 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus3 sites
- Myliobatis raouxi3 sites
- Eostegostoma angustum2 sites
- Galeorhinus2 sites
- Macrorhizodus praecursor2 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri2 sites
- Otodus obliquus2 sites
- Rhinoptera sherborni2 sites
- Striatolamia2 sites
- Usakias2 sites
- Xiphodolamia ensis2 sites
- Alopias crochardi1 site
- Alopias denticulatus1 site
- Anomotodon sheppeyensis1 site
- Brachycarcharias twiggsensis1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Cimomia imperialis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Macrorhizodus nolfi, 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
2 references- The Turanian Basin in the Eocene: the new data on the fossil sharks and rays from the Kyzylkum Desert (Uzbekistan)3
- A study of the sharks and rays from the Lillebælt Clay (Early-Middle Eocene) of Denmark, and their palaeoecology1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Macrorhizodus nolfi 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 Macrorhizodus nolfi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macrorhizodus nolfi 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 itMacrorhizodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhelezko 1999