Cavusgnathus

Cavusgnathus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Cavusgnathus

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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 least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 77 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 76 of 77 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 77 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 77 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 77 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 77 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 77 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 5 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 28 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 26 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 4 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 6 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–258 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346.7 Mya306 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

77 occurrences of Cavusgnathus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

77 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

17 formations

Kinkaid — 37.51°N, 89.03°WKinkaid — 37.87°N, 89.57°WBluefield Shale — 37.20°N, 81.56°WBluefield Shale — 36.88°N, 82.79°WGlen Dean — 37.57°N, 83.76°WGlen Dean — 37.31°N, 84.26°WAleksin — 54.72°N, 35.98°ECherryvale shale — 39.07°N, 94.64°WAmsden — 43.00°N, 107.00°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WMoleen — 38.92°N, 115.83°WBig Snowy — 45.75°N, 112.00°WGlen Eyrie — 38.89°N, 104.89°WMauch Chunk — 41.03°N, 79.62°WBangor Limestone — 34.45°N, 87.75°WMuhua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EMoorefield — 35.77°N, 91.63°WHodder Mudstone — 53.97°N, 2.63°WCaddo Creek — 33.24°N, 98.08°WCove Creek Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.06°W

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The named rock units Cavusgnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cavusgnathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cavusgnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Cavusgnathus, 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

17 references

Each of the 77 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. 5 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 content2

Picture of Cavusgnathus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
AVZ
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris and Hollingsworth 1933