Quadralella polygnathiformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QuadralellaPBDB
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 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 92 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 92 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 92 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 78 of 92 occurrencesLate Triassic261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 10 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 12 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 16 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 16 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 14 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254.14 Mya227.3 Mya261 Mya205 Mya

92 occurrences of Quadralella polygnathiformis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

92 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

14 formations

Pratotondo Limestone — 46.02°N, 10.15°EPratotondo Limestone — 45.93°N, 10.22°EBraunlicher Plattenkalk — 46.42°N, 13.80°EBraunlicher Plattenkalk — 46.42°N, 13.87°ENaizawa — 42.16°N, 142.78°EVolzeia Beds — 44.55°N, 135.57°EMukut — 28.67°N, 84.25°EZhuganpo — 25.90°N, 105.42°EXiaowa — 25.90°N, 105.42°EFüred — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBuchenstein — 46.88°N, 17.60°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°EKasimlar — 37.74°N, 31.16°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.41°EHosselkus — 40.80°N, 122.12°WMartuljek Limestone — 46.40°N, 13.84°E

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The named rock units Quadralella polygnathiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Quadralella polygnathiformis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Quadralella polygnathiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

311 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Quadralella polygnathiformis, 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

19 references

Each of the 92 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. 7 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

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

No 3D scan of Quadralella polygnathiformis 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.

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. (Budurov and Stefanov 1965)