Nolfophidion refertus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NolfophidionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
6 occurrences of Nolfophidion refertus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nolfophidion refertus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nolfophidion refertus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Nolfophidion refertus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Ambassis simesi2 sites
- Astroconger rostratus2 sites
- Conger davidsmithi2 sites
- Gnathophis flemingi2 sites
- Holocentridarum palasulcatus2 sites
- Holocentridarum ventriosus2 sites
- Krebsiella aperta2 sites
- Macrurulus depressus2 sites
- Megalops lissa2 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus2 sites
- Platycephalus iaiunus2 sites
- Platycephalus parapercoides2 sites
- Pterothrissus pervetustus2 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus2 sites
- Sillago maxwelli2 sites
- Tonganago fastigatus2 sites
- Tonganago wharenga2 sites
- Toroatherina toroa2 sites
- Uranoscopus ignavus2 sites
- Zoila glomerabilis2 sites
- Acropoma aurora1 site
- Ampheristus pentlandensis1 site
- Antigonia artata1 site
- Aulopus pristinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nolfophidion refertus, 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- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths2
- Fish otoliths from the Tertiary strata of Victoria, Australia2
- A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia1
- Tertiäre Otolithen aus South Australia und Victoria (Australien)1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Nolfophidion refertus 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 Nolfophidion refertus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nolfophidion refertus 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 itNolfophidion through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stinton 1957)