Notogoneus

Notogoneus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish. A trace fossil attributed to Notogoneus osculus has been found in the Green River Formation.

Notogoneus

Daderot · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonorhynchidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gonorynchiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gonorynchiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gonorynchiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Gonorynchiformes

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 18 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.2 Mya27.3 Mya87 Mya4 Mya

18 occurrences of Notogoneus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

18 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

6 formations

Fort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.58°N, 107.05°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WTwo Medicine — 48.63°N, 113.75°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.53°N, 108.56°W

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The named rock units Notogoneus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notogoneus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Notogoneus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Notogoneus, 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 18 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 Notogoneus

Credit
Daderot
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notogoneus 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.

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 itGonorhynchidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1885