Naso
Naso is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family, Acanthuridae, the unicornfishes, surgeonfishes and tangs. The fishes in this genus are known commonly as unicornfishes because of the "rostral protuberance", a hornlike extension of the forehead present in some species.
(c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- AcanthuridaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Acanthuridae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Acanthuridae
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Acanthuridae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Naso on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Naso and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Naso and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Acanthuridae5 sites
- Cetoscarus5 sites
- Hipposcarus5 sites
- Scaridae5 sites
- Scarus5 sites
- Ostraciidae4 sites
- Rattus exulans4 sites
- Scarinae4 sites
- Diodontidae3 sites
- Holocentridae3 sites
- Laridae3 sites
- Monotaxis3 sites
- Procellariidae3 sites
- Serranidae3 sites
- Siganidae3 sites
- Balistidae2 sites
- Carangidae2 sites
- Chelonioidea2 sites
- Cirrhitidae2 sites
- Exocoetidae2 sites
- Fregata2 sites
- Gallus gallus2 sites
- Labridae2 sites
- Lutjanidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Naso, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Naso
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- (c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Naso 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Naso (fish)”
- 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 itAcanthuridae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1802