Polygnathus bultyncki

Polygnathus bultyncki

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · 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
PolygnathusPBDB
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 35 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 379 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 50 of 50 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 7 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 8 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 8 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 8 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 6 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.7 Mya378.3 Mya

50 occurrences of Polygnathus bultyncki 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

50 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

10 formations

Delay limestone — 39.85°N, 116.27°WDelay limestone — 39.96°N, 116.22°WMont Peyroux — 43.50°N, 3.09°EA — 33.86°N, 6.29°WL'Izarne — 43.57°N, 3.37°ECoils Creek Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.22°WPocheluo — 23.00°N, 108.00°EChotec — 49.50°N, 14.33°EComabella — 42.33°N, 1.67°EMcColley Canyon — 39.85°N, 116.27°WKess-Kess — 31.37°N, 4.05°W

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The named rock units Polygnathus bultyncki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polygnathus bultyncki and its relatives

Devonian

Where Polygnathus bultyncki and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Polygnathus bultyncki, 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

9 references

Each of the 50 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 content1

Picture of Polygnathus bultyncki

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPolygnathus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weddige 1977)