Palmatolepis inflexa

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalmatolepisPBDB
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 145 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 6 occurrences446–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences371–366 Mya — about 1 occurrence366–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–356 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences356–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446 Mya296 Mya

6 occurrences of Palmatolepis inflexa 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

6 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

2 formations

Woodford — 33.17°N, 103.72°WBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°E

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The named rock units Palmatolepis inflexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palmatolepis inflexa and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palmatolepis inflexa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Palmatolepis inflexa, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Palmatolepis inflexa was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPalmatolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1956