Mestognathus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MestognathidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodontophorida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Conodontophorida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodontophorida

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346.7 Mya326.9 Mya359.6 Mya322.9 Mya

15 occurrences of Mestognathus 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

15 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

5 formations

Hodder Mudstone — 53.97°N, 2.63°WAleksin — 54.72°N, 35.98°EBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WMuhua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EAlba — 42.80°N, 5.70°W

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The named rock units Mestognathus 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.

Mestognathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mestognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Mestognathus, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Mestognathus 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 itMestognathidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bischoff