Pandorinellina
Searched as Pandorinellina steinhornensis miae. The Paleobiology Database treats Pandorinellina as the accepted name.

Not Pandorinellina. This is Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789), a relative.
Sarthak Awhad · CC BY-NC 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
- PolygnathidaePBDB
- 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 6.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pandorinellina 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- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Pandorinellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pandorinellina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pandorinellina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
738 taxa- Polygnathus28 sites
- Icriodus23 sites
- Belodella20 sites
- Panderodus14 sites
- Nowakia12 sites
- Bairdiohealdites10 sites
- Coeloenellina10 sites
- Gypidula10 sites
- Howellella10 sites
- Microcheilinella10 sites
- Miraculum10 sites
- Rugosa10 sites
- Atrypa9 sites
- Bairdia9 sites
- Hanaites9 sites
- Pelekysgnathus9 sites
- Praepilatina9 sites
- Cheiracanthoides comptus7 sites
- Fasciphyllum7 sites
- Favosites7 sites
- Newsomites7 sites
- Ozarkodina7 sites
- Uncinulus7 sites
- Zdimir7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Pandorinellina, 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
1 referenceEach 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 content1

Picture of Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Sarthak Awhad
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pandorinellina 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 itPolygnathidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller and Müller 1957