Nolfophidion tumidus
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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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nolfophidion tumidus 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nolfophidion tumidus 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.
Nolfophidion tumidus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nolfophidion tumidus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Chaunax2 sites
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Aequalobythites aequalis1 site
- Aequalobythites hilgendorfi1 site
- Ammodytidarum inconspectus1 site
- Ampheristus1 site
- Antennarius excavatus1 site
- Antigonia angusta1 site
- Apogon bellovacinus1 site
- Apogon glaber1 site
- Apogonidarum macrolepis1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Arius1 site
- Bathyclupea1 site
- Batrachoididarum1 site
- Bothidarum biaculeatus1 site
- Bothus nativus1 site
- Brachycarcharias atlasi1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
- Bregmaceros felkeri1 site
- Brosmophycis elegans1 site
- Brosmophycis regularis1 site
- Brotula arcuata1 site
- Bythitidarum moelleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nolfophidion tumidus, 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- Fish otoliths from the Lutetian of the Aquitaine Basin (SW France), a breakthrough in the knowledge of the European Eocene ichthyofauna1
- The otoliths from the middle Eocene of Osteroden near Bramsche, north-western Germany1
- Sur la faune ichthyologique des formations du Panisel et de Den Hoorn (Eocène Belge)1
Each of the 3 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 tumidus 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 tumidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nolfophidion tumidus 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nolf 1972)