Apsidognathus

No picture of Apsidognathus 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 Apsidognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterospathodontidaePBDB
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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 52 occurrencesSilurian — about 52 of 52 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 52 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya430.6 Mya443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

52 occurrences of Apsidognathus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

52 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

21 formations

Cape Phillips — 75.62°N, 94.50°WVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°ELafayette Bugt — 80.82°N, 65.08°WLafayette Bugt — 81.33°N, 61.77°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.17°N, 79.04°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.17°N, 78.69°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.18°N, 64.97°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.67°N, 65.83°WSevern River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WSevern River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WEkwan River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WEkwan River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WLaurier — 56.83°N, 123.72°WLaPorte City — 42.43°N, 91.33°WLaPorte City — 42.08°N, 91.13°WSamuelsen — 82.45°N, 28.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.17°N, 78.69°WGun River — 49.52°N, 63.52°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.51°WWulff Land — 82.45°N, 28.00°WSilurian Carbonate 3 — 82.48°N, 40.17°WSilurian Carbonate 2 — 82.48°N, 40.17°WKap Morton — 81.18°N, 63.40°WWych — 52.03°N, 2.35°WXiushan — 28.47°N, 108.92°EAgidyl — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Apsidognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apsidognathus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Apsidognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Apsidognathus, 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

16 references

Each of the 52 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Apsidognathus 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 Apsidognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Apsidognathus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walliser 1964