Diplognathodus

Diplognathodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Anchignathodontidae. Specimens are found in Carboniferous and Permian formations.

Diplognathodus

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · 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
AnchignathodontidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 311.46 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 314.8 Mya to 247 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 3 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 1 occurrence295–293 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311.46 Mya298.9 Mya316 Mya246 Mya

9 occurrences of Diplognathodus 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

9 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

2 formations

Bamchi — 37.30°N, 128.48°ETsninskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°E

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The named rock units Diplognathodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplognathodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Diplognathodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diplognathodus, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Diplognathodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplognathodus 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.

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 itAnchignathodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.