Adetognathus

Adetognathus

Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CavusgnathidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 37 of 38 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 38 occurrencesPermian336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 6 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 8 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 8 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya298.9 Mya336.3 Mya289.2 Mya

38 occurrences of Adetognathus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

38 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

7 formations

Hale — 36.72°N, 94.31°WOread Limestone — 36.98°N, 96.29°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.11°N, 95.11°WOread Limestone — 39.59°N, 95.00°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 40.96°N, 95.98°WAmsden — 45.75°N, 112.00°WBlack Prince Limestone — 31.73°N, 109.57°WBird Spring — 34.51°N, 115.42°WBangor Limestone — 34.45°N, 87.75°WItaituba — 4.30°S, 56.22°W

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The named rock units Adetognathus 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.

Adetognathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Adetognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

98 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Adetognathus, 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 38 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 Adetognathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adetognathus 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 itCavusgnathidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.