Gnathodus

Searched as Gnathodus bilineatus bilineatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Gnathodus as the accepted name.

Gnathodus

Uncredited · 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
IdiognathodontidaePBDB
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 60 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 1 occurrence360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360 Mya298 Mya

1 occurrence of Gnathodus 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

Doulingshan — 24.45°N, 108.30°E

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

Gnathodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gnathodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

403 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Gnathodus, 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

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 Gnathodus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Gnathodus 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 itIdiognathodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.