Pelekysgnathus
Searched as Pelekysgnathus inclinatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Pelekysgnathus as the accepted name.
No picture of Pelekysgnathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pelekysgnathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IcriodontidaePBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
26 occurrences of Pelekysgnathus 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
26 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pelekysgnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pelekysgnathus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pelekysgnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
344 taxa- Polygnathus63 sites
- Icriodus39 sites
- Palmatolepis26 sites
- Belodella22 sites
- Icriodus alternatus20 sites
- Warrenella18 sites
- Tortodus13 sites
- Leptathyris11 sites
- Mehlina11 sites
- Brachiopoda10 sites
- Icriodus cornutus10 sites
- Palmatolepis minuta minuta10 sites
- Variatrypa10 sites
- Apatognathus varians9 sites
- Cyrtinoides septata9 sites
- Pandorinellina9 sites
- Polygnathus costatus9 sites
- Schizophoria9 sites
- Nucleospira8 sites
- Rugosa8 sites
- Ambocoeliidae7 sites
- Gypidula7 sites
- Panderodus7 sites
- Polygnathus semicostatus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Pelekysgnathus, 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
5 references- Upper Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian) conodont biostratigraphy in the subsurface of north-central Iowa and southeastern Nebraska20
- Brachiopods and conodont biostratigraphy of the Famennian from the Debnik anticline, southern Poland3
- Middle and Upper Devonian depositional settings of the Moesian Terrane (northern Bulgaria)1
- Famennian survivor turiniid thelodonts of North and East Gondwana1
- Faunal changes and events near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary of South China1
Each of the 26 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 Pelekysgnathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pelekysgnathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pelekysgnathus 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 itIcriodontidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1949