Pseudopolygnathus

Pseudopolygnathus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Polygnathidae.

No picture of Pseudopolygnathus 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 Pseudopolygnathus, 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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 237 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 112 occurrencesDevonian — about 27 of 112 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 85 of 112 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 112 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–373 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences373–366 Mya — about 2 occurrences366–360 Mya — about 19 occurrences360–354 Mya — about 36 occurrences354–347 Mya — about 34 occurrences347–341 Mya — about 12 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 3 occurrences335–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–322 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences322–316 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences316–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259–252 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences252–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358.86 Mya – 346.7 Mya423 Mya233 Mya

112 occurrences of Pseudopolygnathus 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

112 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

23 formations

Wangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°EBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WKonstantin-El — 65.66°N, 59.73°EWuzhishan — 24.45°N, 108.30°EDaihua — 25.77°N, 106.38°ETongchejiang — 24.45°N, 108.30°EPal Limestone — 47.00°N, 13.00°EBorden — 38.14°N, 83.55°WBorden — 38.19°N, 83.52°WBurlington Limestone — 38.05°N, 93.70°WMuhua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EUst'-Parnok — 65.64°N, 61.07°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EWocklum Limestone — 51.40°N, 7.84°EWocklum Limestone — 51.32°N, 7.88°EPal Grande — 47.00°N, 13.00°EStockum — 51.35°N, 7.60°EEdzhid — 65.07°N, 56.69°EBachu — 39.71°N, 78.76°EKuzyama — 63.94°N, 57.78°EMeath — 53.62°N, 6.88°WYonghsien — 25.32°N, 110.10°EDyer Dolomite — 39.59°N, 107.19°WProspect hill — 41.68°N, 94.04°WWhiteway Mudstone — 50.62°N, 4.20°W

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The named rock units Pseudopolygnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudopolygnathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pseudopolygnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Pseudopolygnathus, 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

24 references

Each of the 112 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. 12 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

Media content0

No picture of Pseudopolygnathus 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 Pseudopolygnathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudopolygnathus 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.

The description on this site

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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.