Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus

Charlie J. Underwood and Jan Schlogl · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- NanocetorhinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, carnivorePBDB, for Nanocetorhinus
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nanocetorhinus
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Nanocetorhinus
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus 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
13 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Etmopterus10 sites
- Palaeocentroscymnus horvathi8 sites
- Pristiophorus striatus6 sites
- Squaliolus schaubi6 sites
- Eosqualiolus skrovinai5 sites
- Apristurus4 sites
- Deania4 sites
- Galeus4 sites
- Rajidae4 sites
- Centrophorus3 sites
- Isistius triangulus3 sites
- Miroscyllium3 sites
- Raja gentili3 sites
- Scyliorhinus biformis3 sites
- Squalus3 sites
- Echinorhinus2 sites
- Keasius2 sites
- Keasius parvus2 sites
- Pseudoapristurus nonstriatus2 sites
- Scyliorhinus2 sites
- Carcharhinus priscus1 site
- Carcharias acutissimus1 site
- Cephaloscyllium isabella1 site
- Dipturus casieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus, 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
4 references- Deep-Water Chondrichthyans from the Early Miocene of the Vienna Basin (Central Paratethys, Slovakia)6
- A new deep-sea elasmobranch fauna from the Central Paratethys (Neuhofener Beds, Mitterdorf, near Passau, Germany, Early Miocene, Middle Burdigalian)3
- Deep-sea elasmobranchs from the late early to middle Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) Makino Formation (Awa Group), Japan2
- Palaeocentroscymnus (Chondrichthyes: Somniosidae), a new sleeper shark genus from Miocene deposits of Austria (Europe)2
Each of the 13 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 Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Charlie J. Underwood and Jan Schlogl
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nanocetorhinus tuberculatus 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 itNanocetorhinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Underwood and Schlogl 2013