Griphognathus sculpta

Griphognathus sculpta

Jessen Hans · CC BY 4.0 · 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
GriphognathusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.4 Mya381.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Griphognathus sculpta 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

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

Torringen — 50.98°N, 7.10°E

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

Griphognathus sculpta and its relatives

Devonian

Where Griphognathus sculpta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Griphognathus sculpta, so there is nothing to compare it with.

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 content2

Picture of Griphognathus sculpta

Source
GBIF
Credit
Jessen Hans
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Griphognathus sculpta · nrm:P00005849a

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultze 1969