Chirognathus

Chirognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Chirognathidae.

Chirognathus

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
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 50 of 50 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468 Mya452.8 Mya477.7 Mya444.6 Mya

50 occurrences of Chirognathus 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

50 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

Harding — 38.00°N, 105.00°WBighorn — 44.15°N, 106.70°WWinnipeg — 44.17°N, 106.87°WWinnipeg — 44.35°N, 106.85°WZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EShiyanhe — 33.08°N, 111.67°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.31°S, 146.03°ESt. Peter Sandstone — 44.95°N, 93.10°WGlenwood, Platteville, Decorah — 44.67°N, 92.33°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 114.00°ETaoqipo — 35.00°N, 109.00°EAmarkan — 62.00°N, 90.00°EUst’Stolbovaya — 63.00°N, 100.00°EGull River — 46.17°N, 83.92°WLower Road River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WHarding Sandstone — 38.47°N, 105.27°WAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°W

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The named rock units Chirognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chirognathus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Chirognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Chirognathus, 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

15 references

Each of the 50 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. 3 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 Chirognathus

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

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

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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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.