Cavusgnathus gigantus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavusgnathusPBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya307 Mya336 Mya303.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Cavusgnathus gigantus 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

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

Moleen — 38.92°N, 115.83°WCherryvale shale — 39.09°N, 94.57°W

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

Cavusgnathus gigantus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cavusgnathus gigantus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cavusgnathus gigantus, 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

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 Cavusgnathus gigantus 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 Cavusgnathus gigantus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cavusgnathus gigantus 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 itCavusgnathus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunnell 1933