Clydagnathus

Clydagnathus is a genus of conodonts in the family Cavusgnathidae. Species are known from the Carboniferous of India and the Devonian of Morocco.

Clydagnathus

No machine-readable author provided. Haplochromis assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
PolygnathaceaPBDB
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 26 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 6 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372.7 Mya346.2 Mya

8 occurrences of Clydagnathus 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

8 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

3 formations

Parting Formation — 39.59°N, 107.19°WPinyon Peak Limestone — 38.35°N, 113.15°WHutk — 30.57°N, 56.95°E

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The named rock units Clydagnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clydagnathus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Clydagnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Clydagnathus, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Clydagnathus

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Haplochromis assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Clydagnathus 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.

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What may have been alongside itPolygnathacea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.