Nanocorax

Nanocorax is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains two valid species, N. crassus and N. microserratodon. It has been found in North America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

No picture of Nanocorax 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 Nanocorax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnacoracidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106.3 Mya83.6 Mya110.9 Mya71.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Nanocorax on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

23 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

8 formations

Newhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.67°N, 1.10°WNiobrara — 38.81°N, 100.00°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WLewisville — 32.88°N, 97.07°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WCulver Chalk — 50.85°N, 1.15°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.40°WMenuha — 30.95°N, 35.00°EAtco — 32.53°N, 96.99°W

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The named rock units Nanocorax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nanocorax and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nanocorax and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

192 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Nanocorax, 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

9 references

Each of the 23 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 content0

No picture of Nanocorax 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 Nanocorax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nanocorax 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnacoracidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 2012