Pterospathodus eopennatus

Pterospathodus eopennatus

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
PterospathodusPBDB
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 37 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 25 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 24 of 25 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 3 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya412.3 Mya

25 occurrences of Pterospathodus eopennatus 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

25 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

8 formations

LaPorte City — 42.43°N, 91.33°WLaPorte City — 42.00°N, 92.03°WXiushan — 28.47°N, 108.92°ESevern River — 56.95°N, 90.03°WSevern River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WCape Phillips — 77.48°N, 84.95°WEkwan River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WKenogami River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WLaurier — 56.83°N, 123.72°W

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The named rock units Pterospathodus eopennatus 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.

Pterospathodus eopennatus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pterospathodus eopennatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pterospathodus eopennatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 25 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 Pterospathodus eopennatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männik, Peep
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pterospathodus eopennatus 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 itPterospathodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Männik 1998