Sphenotus

Sphenotus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
GrammysiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 158 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 158 occurrencesDevonian — about 114 of 158 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 40 of 158 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 158 occurrencesPermian449–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–410 Mya — about 8 occurrences410–404 Mya — about 4 occurrences404–398 Mya — about 4 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 6 occurrences391–385 Mya — about 32 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 34 occurrences378–372 Mya — about 21 occurrences372–365 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 6 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 8 occurrences333–327 Mya — about 13 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–288 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443.1 Mya264.28 Mya449 Mya256 Mya

158 occurrences of Sphenotus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

158 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

52 formations

Triangle — 42.35°N, 75.89°WTriangle — 42.19°N, 75.87°WTriangle — 42.23°N, 75.53°WTriangle — 42.31°N, 75.60°WTriangle — 42.26°N, 75.40°WTriangle — 42.30°N, 75.51°WTriangle — 42.43°N, 75.50°WTriangle — 42.29°N, 75.29°WTriangle — 42.40°N, 75.31°WTriangle — 42.31°N, 75.19°WTriangle — 42.24°N, 75.81°WTriangle — 42.35°N, 75.56°WTriangle — 42.40°N, 75.77°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 75.93°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 76.31°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 76.74°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.61°N, 74.88°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.55°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.47°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WGlen Aubrey — 42.30°N, 76.19°WGlen Aubrey — 42.16°N, 75.83°WGlen Aubrey — 42.38°N, 75.58°WGlen Aubrey — 42.44°N, 76.03°WFayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.00°WFayetteville — 36.19°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.01°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.42°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.41°WGeneseo — 42.46°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.66°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WDiamond Peak — 39.57°N, 115.81°WReynolds Limestone — 39.33°N, 79.85°WHinton — 37.90°N, 81.50°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.77°WRhinestreet — 42.70°N, 74.93°WRhinestreet — 42.09°N, 76.87°WNagaoling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EErere — 2.00°S, 54.00°WSinelnikov — 72.00°N, 52.00°EBluestone — 37.90°N, 81.50°WPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WBan Nguon — 21.18°N, 105.07°ELilydale Shale — 39.33°N, 79.85°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WCameron Creek — 46.58°N, 110.83°W

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The named rock units Sphenotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenotus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sphenotus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Sphenotus, 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

45 references

Each of the 158 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. 33 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 content1

Picture of Sphenotus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphenotus 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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What may have been alongside itGrammysiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1884