Palmatolepis

Palmatolepis is an extinct conodont genus in the family Palmatolepidae. It was the most abundant genus of conodonts of the Late Devonian, disappearing during the Devonian/Carboniferous crisis.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalmatolepidaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 237 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 1987 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 1987 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1896 of 1987 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 79 of 1987 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 1987 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1987 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1987 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1987 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–390 Mya — about 4 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 11 occurrences383–376 Mya — about 159 occurrences376–369 Mya — about 1166 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 440 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 115 occurrences354–347 Mya — about 10 occurrences347–340 Mya — about 10 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 10 occurrences333–326 Mya — about 10 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 9 occurrences319–311 Mya — about 9 occurrences311–304 Mya — about 9 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 7 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences290–283 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences283–276 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–261 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences261–254 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences254–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–240 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences240–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences382.31 Mya – 358.86 Mya447 Mya233 Mya

1,987 occurrences of Palmatolepis 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

1,987 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

52 formations

Wuzhishan — 24.45°N, 108.30°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EToc Tat — 22.68°N, 106.67°EToc Tat — 22.23°N, 106.18°EToc Tat — 23.28°N, 105.38°EXiangtian — 24.45°N, 108.30°EEvtropina — 62.73°N, 54.38°EUpper Olentangy Shale — 40.29°N, 83.06°WKrtiny Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EWoodford — 33.48°N, 104.47°WWoodford — 33.17°N, 103.72°WWoodford — 34.90°N, 102.78°WWoodford — 34.20°N, 102.68°WCoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°ELaoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°EVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EDaihua — 24.98°N, 107.53°EDaihua — 25.77°N, 106.38°ERongxian — 22.39°N, 107.55°ERongxian — 24.98°N, 109.98°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°ELong Rapids — 51.00°N, 82.00°WLong Rapids — 50.40°N, 81.56°WBouia — 31.38°N, 4.17°WNehden — 50.74°N, 8.35°ENehden — 51.43°N, 8.63°ESheffield-Maple Mill — 41.12°N, 95.91°WMostyn Vale — 30.88°S, 150.47°EHagen-Balve — 51.39°N, 7.87°EVirgin Hills — 18.73°S, 126.07°EVirgin Hills — 18.77°S, 126.04°EXom Nha — 17.90°N, 105.82°ELyaiol — 63.36°N, 53.84°EWocklum Limestone — 51.40°N, 7.84°EWocklum Limestone — 51.32°N, 7.88°ELuijiang — 24.10°N, 109.98°E

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The named rock units Palmatolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 917 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palmatolepis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palmatolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 459 sites for Palmatolepis, and this reads 240 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

69 references

Each of the 1,987 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. 57 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Palmatolepis 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 Palmatolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Müller 1956