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;
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; SUPPL. 1, FIGS. 19)
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Nostolepis laticristata
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, 149, 150, fig. 70.1, pl. 18.9, 19.119.3.
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Nostovicina laticristata
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, 646.
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Type material—
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Referred specimens—Scales assigned to this species occur at levels 517613 (
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): Roberts Mountains Formation.
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Description—Small scales up to
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wide, with crowns mostly conforming to two morphotypes, both of which have a smooth flat subtriangular surface with five or six short, usually smoothly rounded and nonbranching, ridges leading back from the anterior crown margin. Posterolateral edges of the crown are straight or slightly convex and lack denticulations, converging at a slightly obtuse angle. One morphotype has several oblique ridges leading back from the posterior corner along the lateral faces of the crown (
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), and the other morphotype lacks ridges on the posterolateral sides of the crown (
<figureCitation id="A28E78C8FFD1FFEF59158883FF6F27F3" box="[121,244,228,255]" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="16.[112,191,1208,1232]" captionTargetBox="[112,1520,194,1196]" captionTargetId="figure-244@16.[112,1520,194,1196]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 4. Nostovicina and Nostolepis sp. acanthodian scales from the Siluro-Devonian boundary levels of the Birch Creek II section. A. Nostovicina sp. cf. N. elegans: UCR 10755-1 (level 470.2) in crown view (from Supplement 1, fig. 13). BD, J. Nostovicina laticristata: B. UCR 10768-10 (level 518.3') in crown view; C, D. UCR 10768-6 (level 518.3') in anterocrown and crown views; J. UCR 10768-11 (level 518.3') horizontal thin section through crown. EI, K, L. Nostovicina sp. cf. N. guangxiensis; E. UCR 5443-1 (level 562.6') in anterocrown view; F, G. UCR 5443-3 (level 562.6') in crown and lateral views; H. UCR 5443-4 (level 562.6') in posterocrown view; I. UCR 5443-6 (level 562.6') in crown view; K, L. UCR 5443-7 (level 562.6') vertical transverse section, magnified view of crown structure in L. MP. Nostovicina sp. cf. N. lacrima: M. UCR 5439-8 in lateral view; N. UCR 5439-6 in posterior view; O. UCR 5439-4 (level 549') in lateral view; P. UCR 10768-1 (level 518.3') in anterior view. QT. Nostolepis matukhini: Q, R. UCR 5443-2 (level 562.6') in crown and laterocrown views; S, T. UCR 5443-5 (level 562.6') in crown and anterocrown views. Abbreviations: cgz=crown growth zones; h=hyphal borings; Sf=Sharpeys fiber bundles. Scale bars=0.1 mm, anterior of scale is to right or up, otherwise arrows point to anterior. See Table 1 for meterage." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913567" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10913567/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Fig. 4C, D</figureCitation>
). All scales have a short or no neck. The base is convex and about the same height as the crown plus neck, lacking a marked rim between the neck and base. As usual for BC II scales, histology is poorly preserved with scales having extensive hyphal borings. Four wide growth zones form the crown (
<figureCitation id="A28E78C8FFD1FFEF589C89F3FDD826A2" box="[496,579,404,430]" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="16.[112,191,1208,1232]" captionTargetBox="[112,1520,194,1196]" captionTargetId="figure-244@16.[112,1520,194,1196]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 4. Nostovicina and Nostolepis sp. acanthodian scales from the Siluro-Devonian boundary levels of the Birch Creek II section. A. Nostovicina sp. cf. N. elegans: UCR 10755-1 (level 470.2) in crown view (from Supplement 1, fig. 13). BD, J. Nostovicina laticristata: B. UCR 10768-10 (level 518.3') in crown view; C, D. UCR 10768-6 (level 518.3') in anterocrown and crown views; J. UCR 10768-11 (level 518.3') horizontal thin section through crown. EI, K, L. Nostovicina sp. cf. N. guangxiensis; E. UCR 5443-1 (level 562.6') in anterocrown view; F, G. UCR 5443-3 (level 562.6') in crown and lateral views; H. UCR 5443-4 (level 562.6') in posterocrown view; I. UCR 5443-6 (level 562.6') in crown view; K, L. UCR 5443-7 (level 562.6') vertical transverse section, magnified view of crown structure in L. MP. Nostovicina sp. cf. N. lacrima: M. UCR 5439-8 in lateral view; N. UCR 5439-6 in posterior view; O. UCR 5439-4 (level 549') in lateral view; P. UCR 10768-1 (level 518.3') in anterior view. QT. Nostolepis matukhini: Q, R. UCR 5443-2 (level 562.6') in crown and laterocrown views; S, T. UCR 5443-5 (level 562.6') in crown and anterocrown views. Abbreviations: cgz=crown growth zones; h=hyphal borings; Sf=Sharpeys fiber bundles. Scale bars=0.1 mm, anterior of scale is to right or up, otherwise arrows point to anterior. See Table 1 for meterage." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913567" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10913567/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Fig. 4J</figureCitation>
).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="72AF37C6FFD1FFEF59FC89D0FDCC2079" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="3A0A644DFFD1FFEF59FC89D0FDCC2079" blockId="15.[112,801,193,1909]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
Comparison—This taxon was erected for circa 5000 isolated scales from the Lochkovian of Taimyr by
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, who originally assigned the species to
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; it was subsequently reassigned to
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Nostovicina
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</taxonomicName>
, based on histological structure. Some scales from TimanPechora that
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assigned to this species were reassigned to
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Nostolepis adzvensis
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</taxonomicName>
and subsequently by
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to
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, based once again on histological differences. The two species
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and
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are virtually impossible to differentiate on morphology alone, but histological study of scales confirmed that those from BC II are
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. The latter show a similar range in size and morphology to scales from the Lochkovian of the Arctic Canadian Archipelago, which
<bibRefCitation id="5E2419BCFFD1FFEF580A8B8DFD9D2309" author="Vieth, J." box="[358,518,1002,1029]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 69" refId="ref26884" refString="Vieth, J. 1980. Thelodontier-, Akanthodier- und Elasmobranchier-Schuppen aus dem Unter-Devon der Kanadischen Arktis (Agnatha, Pisces). Gottinger Arbeiten Geologie und Palaontologie 23: 1 - 69." type="journal article" year="1980">Vieth (1980)</bibRefCitation>
assigned to
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cf.
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, and which have since also been assigned to
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(
<bibRefCitation id="5E2419BCFFD1FFEF58A58C56FD232347" author="Valiukevicius, J. J." box="[457,696,1073,1099]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="236 - 243" refId="ref26230" refString="Valiukevicius, J. J. 1994. Acanthodians and their strati- graphic significance. Pp. 131 - 197, 236 - 243 in S. Cherkesova, V. Karatajute-Talimaa and R. Matukhin (eds.), Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Lower Devonian of the Tareya Key Section (Taimyr). Nedra, Leningrad. (in Russian)." type="journal article" year="1994">Valiukevičius 1994</bibRefCitation>
,
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: CJB, personal observation of scales from
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localities C-8771, C-67653, C-76085). A partial articulated fish from the Lochkovian MOTH locality of
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,
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(
<bibRefCitation id="5E2419BCFFD1FFEF589F8CD9FD1323D4" author="Hanke, G. F." box="[499,648,1214,1240]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" refId="ref23462" refString="Hanke, G. F. 2001. Comparison of an early Devonian acanthodian and putative chondrichthyan assemblage using both isolated and articulated remains from the Mackenzie Mountains, with a cladistic analysis of early gnathostomes. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada." type="book" year="2001">Hanke 2001</bibRefCitation>
, figs. 8285: captioned as
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?) is here considered to be
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. LochkovianPragian scales from southeastern
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that are now assigned to
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Nostovicina guangxiensis (
<bibRefCitation id="5E2419BCFFD1FFEF58A38D2CFDF52269" author="Wang, N. - Z." box="[463,622,1355,1381]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="298 - 307" refId="ref26944" refString="Wang, N. - Z. 1992. Microremains of agnathans and fishes from Lower Devonian of Central Guangxi with correlation of Lower Devonian between Central Guangxi and Eastern Yunnan, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 31 (3): 298 - 307." type="journal article" year="1992">Wang, 1992</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
have a very similar or greater range of crown morphotypes (
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, figs. 4EI, 5JM, 12A, C, D), but these scales are on average much larger than those of
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. One of the type scales of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="5E2419BCFFD1FFEF5BD78DBFFF4E2119" author="Wang, N. Z. &amp; J. Q. Wang &amp; G. R. Zhang &amp; S. T. Wang" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="268 - 281" refId="ref26991" refString="Wang, N. Z., J. Q. Wang, G. R. Zhang, and S. T. Wang. 1998. The first discovery of Silurian and Early Devonian acanthodians from Zoige and Tewo counties, West Qinling Mountains. Vertebrata Palasiatica 36: 268 - 281." type="journal article" year="1998">Wang et al. 1998</bibRefCitation>
, pl. 1H) from the lower Lochkovian of the Xiaputonggou Formation, Tewo county,
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, resembles the simplest variants of
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, and it seems possible that the Chinese scales from that level should be reassigned to the latter species. The
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and other
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scales of
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were from the much older, upper Wenlockian Miaogou Formation.
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is now recorded from the Lochkovian of arctic
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,
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, Nevada, Taimyr, Podolia, and east Baltic countries (
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,
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,
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).
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