Bispathodus
Searched as Bispathodus costatus sulciferus. The Paleobiology Database treats Bispathodus as the accepted name.
No picture of Bispathodus 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 Bispathodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolygnathidaePBDB
- 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 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bispathodus 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Bispathodus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Bispathodus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
255 taxa- Polygnathus39 sites
- Polygnathus semicostatus31 sites
- Neopolygnathus communis29 sites
- Apatognathus varians26 sites
- Pseudopolygnathus26 sites
- Siphonodella25 sites
- Palmatolepis24 sites
- Branmehla20 sites
- Mehlina15 sites
- Polygnathus nodocostatus15 sites
- Icriodus11 sites
- Crinoidea10 sites
- Gastropoda10 sites
- Spathognathodus10 sites
- Brachiopoda9 sites
- Ozarkodina9 sites
- Branmehla fissilis8 sites
- Acutimitoceras7 sites
- Ostracoda7 sites
- Pelekysgnathus7 sites
- Bivalvia6 sites
- Gattendorfia6 sites
- Palmatolepis gracilis expansa6 sites
- Clydagnathus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Bispathodus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Bispathodus 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 Bispathodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bispathodus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPolygnathidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.