Bactrognathus

Bactrognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Bactrognathidae.

Bactrognathus

Hoyle, B · 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
BactrognathidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At most 9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 342.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352.4 Mya342.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Bactrognathus 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

1 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

1 formation

Rushville — 39.77°N, 82.39°W

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

Bactrognathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bactrognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bactrognathus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Bactrognathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Hoyle, B
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bactrognathus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBactrognathidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.