Gondolella

Gondolella is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Gondolellidae.

Gondolella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GondolellidaePBDB
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 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 370 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 370 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 370 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 28 of 370 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 262 of 370 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 50 of 370 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 370 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 5 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–258 Mya — about 4 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 10 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 25 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 160 occurrences242–236 Mya — about 108 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 23 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 11 occurrences226–220 Mya — about 4 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 3 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 4 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 2 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya215.38 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

370 occurrences of Gondolella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

370 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

29 formations

Buchenstein — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBuchenstein — 47.00°N, 17.95°EBuchenstein — 46.95°N, 17.70°EFelsőörs Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.95°EFelsőörs Limestone — 46.95°N, 17.70°EBuchenstein — 45.82°N, 10.47°EHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.41°EZuhánya Limestone — 45.97°N, 18.36°ECherryvale Shale — 39.09°N, 94.58°WGutenstein — 47.67°N, 14.71°EKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EMukut — 28.67°N, 84.25°EVäszoly — 46.88°N, 17.60°EVikinghogda — 78.34°N, 16.41°EBotneheia — 77.61°N, 15.23°EBotneheia — 78.34°N, 16.42°EThinigaon — 28.38°N, 84.94°ELuolou — 25.61°N, 106.63°ECarbondale — 40.31°N, 90.07°WSchmidt — 43.03°N, 131.93°EBuchenstein Beds — 45.82°N, 10.47°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EDachstein — 47.57°N, 14.52°ETamba Kurkur — 28.67°N, 84.25°EThaynes — 42.48°N, 111.20°WTashly — 53.92°N, 56.58°EFüred — 46.88°N, 17.60°E

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The named rock units Gondolella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 189 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gondolella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Gondolella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

602 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 186 sites for Gondolella, 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

45 references

Each of the 370 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. 33 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 content1

Picture of Gondolella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gondolella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stauffer and Plummer 1932