Nodacosta
No picture of Nodacosta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nodacosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthodiiPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
5 occurrences of Nodacosta 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Nodacosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nodacosta and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nodacosta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Bryantonchus peracutus3 sites
- Nodocosta denisoni3 sites
- Cacheacanthus utahensis2 sites
- Cheirolepis2 sites
- Ptychodictyon americanum2 sites
- Acanthodes1 site
- Actinolepis tuberculata1 site
- Aethaspis major1 site
- Aethaspis utahensis1 site
- Allocryptaspis utahensis1 site
- Asterolepis estonica1 site
- Asterolepis ornata1 site
- Bothriolepis curonica1 site
- Bryantolepis1 site
- Byssacanthus dilatatus1 site
- Camptaspis utahensis1 site
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Conchodus1 site
- Devononchus concinnus1 site
- Dickosteus1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Dipterus1 site
- Eusthenopteron kurshi1 site
- Ganosteus artus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nodacosta, 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
3 references- Early Devonian (Emsian) acanthodian faunas of the Western USA3
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates1
- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Nodacosta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nodacosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nodacosta 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcanthodii through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gross 1940