Polygnathus

Searched as Polygnathus purus subplanus. The Paleobiology Database treats Polygnathus as the accepted name.

Polygnathus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Polygnathus

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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 13 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.4 Mya346.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Polygnathus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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.

Polygnathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Polygnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 730 sites for Polygnathus, 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

1 reference

Each 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 content2

Picture of Polygnathus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Hinde 1879