Pranognathus

Pranognathus

Männik, Peep · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
BalognathidaePBDB
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 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 12 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 10 of 12 occurrencesSilurian445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya440.5 Mya445.7 Mya432.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Pranognathus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

12 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

6 formations

Nurmekund — 58.72°N, 26.15°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EZalaa — 44.40°N, 99.33°EKogsta — 63.40°N, 14.40°EVodopad — 79.68°N, 96.50°ESaarde — 58.32°N, 25.50°E

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The named rock units Pranognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pranognathus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pranognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pranognathus, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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 Pranognathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männik, Peep
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itBalognathidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.