Notagogus denticulatus AGASSIZ, 1843

Taxonomy

Coral Reef Fish

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Semionotiformes Arambourg and Bertin 1958
Family: Macrosemiidae Thiollière 1858
Genus: Notagogus
Species: Notagogus denticulatus
Author Citation AGASSIZ, 1843

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Tithonian

Stratigraphy

Weissjura Group
Painten Formation

Biostratigraphy

Hybonoticeras beckeri Zone
Lithacoceras ulmense Subzone

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 2 cm

Location

Rygol Quarry
Painten
Bavaria
Germany

• bavaria
• jurassic
• notagogus
• painten
• rygol
• tff-oilshale-ch1876
• tithonian

Comments

Several Late Jurassic macrosemiids are known from the Solnhofen limestones, including at least Notagogus, Histionotus, Voelklichthys and two species of Propterus.

Taxonomy from 

Diagnosis from Bertram 1977, p. 193: " Notagogus reaching standard length of 70 mm; mean proportions as percentage of standard length: head length 33%, trunk depth 29 %, predorsal length 41 %; dorsal fin-ray count: ant. 10-14, post. 10-11; about 34 lateral line scales, only part of their hind borders bearing prominent serrations; no free fulcra on pectoral fin, very few fringing fulcra on first dorsal fin, fringing fulcra on anal fin."

Line drawing from Bartram 1977, p. 191:

Identified by oilshale using Bartram 1877.

 

References:

Agassiz, L. (1843) Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii-188.
Woodward, A. S. (1919) The fossil fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations, Part III. Palaeontographical Society, London 1917:105-148.
Bartram, A.W.H. (1977) The Macrosemiidae, a Mesozoic family of Holostean fishes. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), 29, 137-234.
Gloria Arratia and Hans-Peter Schultze (2012): The macrosemiiform fish companion of the Late Jurassic theropod Juravenator from Schamhaupten, Bavaria, Germany. Fossil Record 15 (1) 2012, 5–25 / DOI 10.1002/mmng.201200001.