Eoplacognathus

No picture of Eoplacognathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Eoplacognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyplacognathidaePBDB
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 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 461.4 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 29 of 29 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.4 Mya – 461.1 Mya471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

29 occurrences of Eoplacognathus 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

29 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

15 formations

Öland C — 57.11°N, 16.89°ELas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WLas Aguaditas — 29.08°S, 68.10°WGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EGuniutan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EVoskresenka — 51.17°N, 82.05°EVoskresenka — 51.62°N, 82.62°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLa Cantera — 31.00°S, 69.00°WGualcamayo — 31.00°S, 69.00°WCapillas — 24.00°S, 65.00°WShan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°EKrivaya Luka — 60.00°N, 114.00°EEsbataottine — 66.63°N, 140.53°WOspika — 57.02°N, 124.22°WNaiman — 48.92°N, 79.01°EVexin — 58.46°N, 42.51°ECrown Point Limestone — 44.03°N, 73.42°W

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The named rock units Eoplacognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eoplacognathus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eoplacognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Eoplacognathus, 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

19 references

Each of the 29 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Eoplacognathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Eoplacognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eoplacognathus 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 itPolyplacognathidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hamar 1966