| Nanocetorhinus Temporal range: Early Miocene
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| Genus: | †Nanocetorhinus Underwood & Schlogl, 2011
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Nanocetorhinus is an extinct genus of sharks in the subclass Neoselachii. The type and only described species is N. tuberculatus, which existed in what is now Slovakia during the Miocene epoch, and was described by Charlie J. Underwood and Jan Schlogl in 2011. It was described from 28 fossilized teeth.[1]
- ^ Charlie J. Underwood and Jan Schlogl (2011). "Deep water chondrichthyans from the Early Miocene of the Vienna Basin (Central Paratethys, Slovakia)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0101.