Apatognathus

Apatognathus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrioniodininaPBDB
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 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 425 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 68 occurrencesDevonian — about 41 of 68 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 16 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 68 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 4 of 68 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 68 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 68 occurrencesLate Triassic429–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–414 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences376–369 Mya — about 11 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 21 occurrences361–353 Mya — about 9 occurrences353–346 Mya — about 4 occurrences346–338 Mya — about 7 occurrences331–323 Mya — about 3 occurrences323–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences247–239 Mya — about 3 occurrences239–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419.62 Mya241.464 Mya429 Mya201 Mya

68 occurrences of Apatognathus 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

68 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

8 formations

Sheffield-Maple Mill — 41.68°N, 94.04°WSheffield-Maple Mill — 42.54°N, 94.09°WSheffield-Maple Mill — 41.12°N, 95.91°WPinyon Peak Limestone — 38.35°N, 113.15°WPinyon Peak Limestone — 40.72°N, 112.99°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WFitchville — 40.72°N, 112.99°WDyer Dolomite — 39.59°N, 107.19°WPanching limestone — 3.90°N, 103.11°EGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WBerchogur? — 48.00°N, 58.00°E

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The named rock units Apatognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apatognathus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Apatognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Apatognathus, 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

10 references

Each of the 68 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 Apatognathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Apatognathus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPrioniodinina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.