Notagogus

Notagogus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish. They can be found in the Solnhofen Plattenkalk.

Notagogus

Oilshale · CC BY-SA 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
MacrosemiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149.2 Mya110.1 Mya153 Mya99 Mya

13 occurrences of Notagogus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

13 occurrences

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

5 formations

Tlayúa — 18.59°N, 97.90°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WSainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°ECantelhá — 16.71°N, 92.65°WSolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°E

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The named rock units Notagogus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notagogus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Notagogus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Notagogus, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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 Notagogus

Credit
Oilshale
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notagogus 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

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 itMacrosemiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1833