Pseudopolygnathus

Searched as Pseudopolygnathus primus. The Paleobiology Database treats Pseudopolygnathus as the accepted name.

No picture of Pseudopolygnathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 most 26 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 4 of 11 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372.7 Mya346.2 Mya

11 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

11 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

Wangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°EBahram — 33.04°N, 51.98°EBachu — 39.71°N, 78.76°EMuhua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EKuzyama — 63.94°N, 57.78°EWhiteway 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.

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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content0

No picture of Pseudopolygnathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 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 itPolygnathidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.