Amorphognathus ventilatus

No picture of Amorphognathus ventilatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Amorphognathus ventilatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmorphognathusPBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 448.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448.8 Mya445.2 Mya449.7 Mya442.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Amorphognathus ventilatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

2 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

2 formations

Schmiedefeld — 50.52°N, 11.22°EPortrane Limestone — 53.49°N, 6.10°W

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The named rock units Amorphognathus ventilatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Amorphognathus ventilatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Amorphognathus ventilatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amorphognathus ventilatus, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Amorphognathus ventilatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Amorphognathus ventilatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Amorphognathus ventilatus 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 itAmorphognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ferretti and Barnes 1997