Spathognathodus dubius
No picture of Spathognathodus dubius 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 Spathognathodus dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpathognathodusPBDB
- 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 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Spathognathodus dubius 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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.
Spathognathodus dubius and its relatives
SilurianWhere Spathognathodus dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Dapsilodus mutatus4 sites
- Distacodus procerus4 sites
- Hindeodella equidentata4 sites
- Plectospathodus extensus4 sites
- Synprioniodina bicurvata4 sites
- Lonchodina greilingi3 sites
- Oulodus walliseri3 sites
- Ozarkodina media3 sites
- Trichonodella inconstans3 sites
- Kockelella variabilis2 sites
- Oulodus siluricus2 sites
- Ozarkodina ziegleri2 sites
- Michelinoceras1 site
- Wurmiella excavata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spathognathodus dubius, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Spathognathodus dubius 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 Spathognathodus dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spathognathodus dubius 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 itSpathognathodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ethington and Furnish 1962