Nasogaluakus

Canadian Museum of Nature · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HoloptychiidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nasogaluakus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nasogaluakus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nasogaluakus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nasogaluakus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Carcinosoma2 sites
- Drepanopterus2 sites
- Erieopterus2 sites
- Aparchitellina1 site
- Cytherellina1 site
- Dialipina salgueiroensis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heimenia1 site
- Knoxiella1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Melanoacanthus minutus1 site
- Melanognathus1 site
- Melanognathus canadensis1 site
- Moelleritia canadensis1 site
- Orthocypris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nasogaluakus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- An Early Devonian (Emsian) acanthodian from the Bear Rock Formation, Anderson River, Northwest Territories, Canada1
- A porolepiform rhipidistian from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic1
Each of the 2 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 Nasogaluakus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nasogaluakus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHoloptychiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultze 2000