Chirognathus duodactylus
No picture of Chirognathus duodactylus 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 Chirognathus duodactylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChirognathusPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Chirognathus duodactylus 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Winnipeg Formation3
- Shiyanhe Formation2
- Glenwood, Platteville, Decorah Formation · Galena Group1
- Gull River Formation1
- Harding Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Chirognathus duodactylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chirognathus duodactylus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Chirognathus duodactylus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Oulodus4 sites
- Stereoconus4 sites
- Drepanoistodus suberectus3 sites
- Astraspis desiderata2 sites
- Belodina compressa2 sites
- Erismodus quadridactylus2 sites
- Amorphognathus superbus1 site
- Belodina confluens1 site
- Bryantodina1 site
- Coelocerodontus trigonius1 site
- Culumbodina1 site
- Curtognathus1 site
- Dapsilodus mutatus1 site
- Drepanoistodus venustus1 site
- Eriptychius1 site
- Eriptychius americanus1 site
- Icriodella1 site
- Larolepis darbyi1 site
- Mixoconus1 site
- Oneotodus1 site
- Ormoceras1 site
- Panderodus equicostatus1 site
- Panderodus feulneri1 site
- Panderodus gracilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Chirognathus duodactylus, 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
5 references- Late Ordovician vertebrates from the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming3
- Upper Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies from the Sigang section, Neixiang, Henan, central China2
- A thelodont from the Ordovician of Canada1
- Astraspis, the anatomy and histology of an Ordovician fish1
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Chirognathus duodactylus 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 Chirognathus duodactylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chirognathus duodactylus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itChirognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Mehl 1933