Ninoziphius platyrostris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NinoziphiusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ziphiidae
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti
Time the record covers
At least 8.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
10 occurrences of Ninoziphius platyrostris 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group3
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group3
- Pisco Formation1
- Pungo River Formation1
- Bone Valley Formation1
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Ninoziphius platyrostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ninoziphius platyrostris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ninoziphius platyrostris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
724 taxa- Otodus megalodon5 sites
- Kogiidae4 sites
- Ontocetus emmonsi4 sites
- Phocidae4 sites
- Aetobatus3 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus3 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis3 sites
- Dinohippus mexicanus3 sites
- Lagodon rhomboides3 sites
- Neohipparion eurystyle3 sites
- Odontoceti3 sites
- Pontoporiidae3 sites
- Sphyraena barracuda3 sites
- Squatina3 sites
- Alopias vulpinus2 sites
- Aluterus2 sites
- Ardenna gravis2 sites
- Bagre2 sites
- Bolivina2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharhinus leucas2 sites
- Carcharhinus perezi2 sites
- Carcharhinus plumbeus2 sites
- Carcharias acutissimus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ninoziphius platyrostris, 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- Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida4
- Toothed whale (Mammalia: Cetacea: Odontoceti) Limb bones of the Lee Creek mine, North Carolina2
- Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina2
- Geology and paleontology of late Cenozoic marine deposits in the Sacaco area (Peru)1
- Un Ziphiidae nouveau du Pliocene inferieur de Perou1
Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ninoziphius platyrostris 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 Ninoziphius platyrostris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ninoziphius platyrostris 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNinoziphius through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muizon 1983