Sweetognathus

Sweetognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Sweetognathidae that evolved at the beginning of the Permian period, in near-equatorial, shallow-water seas.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SweetognathidaePBDB
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 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 247 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPermian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290.1 Mya – 283.3 Mya300 Mya246 Mya

10 occurrences of Sweetognathus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

10 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

5 formations

Chili — 33.97°N, 56.47°EE-Lert — 17.31°N, 101.73°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EQixia — 23.71°N, 109.23°EZweikofel — 46.58°N, 13.22°E

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The named rock units Sweetognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sweetognathus and its relatives

Permian

Where Sweetognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Sweetognathus, 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 10 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 Sweetognathus 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 Sweetognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sweetognathus 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSweetognathidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.