Polylophodonta

No picture of Polylophodonta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Polylophodonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 365.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesDevonian383–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372.15 Mya368.5 Mya382.8 Mya364.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Polylophodonta 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

6 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

2 formations

Vilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EKrtiny Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°E

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The named rock units Polylophodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polylophodonta and its relatives

Devonian

Where Polylophodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Polylophodonta, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Polylophodonta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Polylophodonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polylophodonta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.