Polygnathus varcus
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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 least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
143 occurrences of Polygnathus varcus 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
143 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
13 formations
- Comabella Formation10
- Bouia Formation · Achguig Group7
- B Formation5
- Beul Formation4
- Portilla Formation3
- Bahram Formation3
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The named rock units Polygnathus varcus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polygnathus varcus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Polygnathus varcus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Icriodus6 sites
- Polygnathus linguiformis6 sites
- Polygnathus xylus6 sites
- Brachiopoda3 sites
- Icriodus brevis3 sites
- Icriodus expansus3 sites
- Icriodus latericrescens3 sites
- Nowakia3 sites
- Ozarkodina3 sites
- Polygnathus alatus3 sites
- Polygnathus dubia3 sites
- Ancyrodella2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Nanicella2 sites
- Spinocyrtia2 sites
- Tabulata2 sites
- Zaphrentidae2 sites
- Acanthophyllum1 site
- Adolfia1 site
- Altusoblastus schultzei1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Ancyrodella nodosa1 site
- Ancyrognathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Polygnathus varcus, 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
21 references- Das "Taghanic Event" im höheren Mittel-Devon von West-Europa und Marokko82
- Distribution comparée de Conodontes et Goniatites dévoniens des plaines du Dra, du Ma'der et du Tafilalt12
- The Givetian-Frasnian boundary in pre-Sahara Morocco8
- Eifelian (Middle Devonian) to lower Frasnian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy in the Villech section, Spanish Central Pyrenees7
- Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)4
- Stop 2.1A - Givetian conodonts from the Poccis section (Carnic Alps, Italy)4
- Middle Givetian to late Famennian (Middle to Late Devonian) conodonts from the northern margin of Gondwana (Kerman region, Central Iran)3
- Givetian and early Frasnian conodonts from the Compte section (Middle–Upper Devonian, Spanish Central Pyrenees)3
- Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian conodont faunas from the Rabat–Tiflet area (northwestern Moroccan Meseta)3
- Facies and diagenesis of the Devonian Portilla Limestone Formation between the River Esla and the embalse de la Luna, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain3
- Conodont biostratigraphy of shallow marine Givetian deposits from the Radom-Lublin area, SE Poland2
- Late Emsian to early Givetian Conodont succession in the Tiflet area (north-western Meseta, Central Morocco)2
Each of the 143 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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
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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. Stauffer 1940