Protognathodus meischneri

Protognathodus meischneri

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
ProtognathodusPBDB
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 42 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 4 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous366–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–356 Mya — about 1 occurrence356–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–353 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366 Mya322.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Protognathodus meischneri 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

9 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

4 formations

Pal Grande — 47.00°N, 13.00°EWangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EDaihua — 25.80°N, 106.40°E

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The named rock units Protognathodus meischneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protognathodus meischneri and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Protognathodus meischneri and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Protognathodus meischneri, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Protognathodus meischneri

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

No 3D scan of Protognathodus meischneri was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProtognathodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ziegler 1969