Netuma sp.
Netuma is a genus of sea catfishes found in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean where it occurs in marine, brackish and fresh waters from the coasts of Africa to Australia to China. There are currently three recognized species in this genus.
Acarie Baron · 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.
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Netuma sp. on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene71%
- Miocene14%
- Pleistocene14%
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
3 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group4
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Tapu Formation1
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The named rock units Netuma sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Netuma sp. and its relatives
EoceneWhere Netuma sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Carcharias6 sites
- Abdounia5 sites
- Abdounia lapierrei5 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis5 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni5 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus5 sites
- Apogon bellovacinus5 sites
- Aves5 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei5 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi5 sites
- Callionymus5 sites
- Carcharias acutissimus5 sites
- Chelone5 sites
- Conger5 sites
- Coupatezia woutersi5 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus5 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli5 sites
- Egertonia5 sites
- Eosolea bartonensis5 sites
- Eostegostoma5 sites
- Eotrigonodon serratus5 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens5 sites
- Galeorhinus ypresiensis5 sites
- Heterodontus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Netuma sp., 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
3 references- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)5
- Late Miocene otoliths from northern Taiwan: insights into the rarely known Neogene coastal fish community of the subtropical northwest Pacific1
- Fósseis de vertebrados marinhos do Pleistoceno Superior na porção sul da planície costeira do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Netuma sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Acarie Baron
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Netuma sp. 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, “Netuma”
- 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 itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.