Nebrius

Nebrius is a genus of carpet sharks in the family Ginglymostomatidae.

Nebrius

David Burdick · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
GinglymostomatidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 98 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 98 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 61 of 98 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 98 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 98 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 98 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 7 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

98 occurrences of Nebrius on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

98 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

50 formations

Pirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 0.63°S, 47.54°WPirabas — 0.66°S, 47.22°WTallahatta — 31.20°N, 85.48°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.57°N, 88.34°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WLandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°ECantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WCantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WMidawara — 29.08°N, 30.12°EMidawara — 29.00°N, 30.00°EMidawara — 28.64°N, 30.88°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.06°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.03°EMatam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WSamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WGehannam — 29.31°N, 30.06°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EDry Branch — 33.62°N, 81.68°WDry Branch — 33.50°N, 84.74°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WBrussel Sand — 50.79°N, 4.37°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WSan Juan — 16.67°N, 93.08°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WTuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.68°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WJacksonian — 32.74°N, 83.50°WKithar — 30.60°N, 70.38°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Nebrius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nebrius and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nebrius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,504 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Nebrius, 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

53 references

Each of the 98 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. 41 further references are not listed. 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 Nebrius

Credit
David Burdick
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Crotaphytus nebrius · UCM:Herp:UCM:Herp:65810

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGinglymostomatidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rüppell 1837