Aphelognathus

Aphelognathus

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
PrioniodininaPBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 439.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 105 of 108 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 108 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 17 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 17 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 16 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 6 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454 Mya439.4 Mya458.9 Mya422 Mya

108 occurrences of Aphelognathus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

108 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

27 formations

Shiyanhe — 33.08°N, 111.67°EEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WTuresø — 82.45°N, 28.00°WTuresø — 80.85°N, 21.58°WRed Head Rapids — 63.98°N, 83.67°WRed Head Rapids — 56.77°N, 90.83°WRed Head Rapids — 56.68°N, 88.77°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WNoix Limestone — 39.39°N, 90.95°WCaution Creek — 56.77°N, 90.83°WCaution Creek — 56.68°N, 88.77°WStrojnaya — 78.74°N, 102.52°EStrojnaya — 79.60°N, 96.49°EStrojnaya — 79.65°N, 96.54°EWhittaker — 63.22°N, 126.33°WGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.01°EGur'yanovka — 51.98°N, 87.13°ENanook — 69.52°N, 145.63°WAdvance — 56.18°N, 123.45°WAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°WBadainjaran — 41.65°N, 102.60°EEmpozada — 33.00°S, 69.00°WFengfeng — 36.00°N, 114.00°ETaoqipo — 35.00°N, 109.00°ENirunda — 63.00°N, 95.00°EBur — 63.00°N, 95.00°EAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.67°N, 65.83°WTirekhtyakh — 63.97°N, 147.15°EPortage Chute — 56.77°N, 90.83°WSevern River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WTureso — 82.80°N, 35.87°W

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The named rock units Aphelognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphelognathus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aphelognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Aphelognathus, 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

22 references

Each of the 108 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. 10 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 Aphelognathus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPrioniodinina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.