Gnathodus texanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GnathodusPBDB
- 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
16 occurrences of Gnathodus texanus 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
16 occurrences- Silurian2%
- Devonian10%
- Carboniferous89%
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
6 formations
- Hodder Mudstone Formation5
- Great Blue Formation1
- Borden Formation1
- Moorefield Formation1
- Hale Formation1
- Leaning Rock Formation · Perdido Group1
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The named rock units Gnathodus texanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gnathodus texanus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Gnathodus texanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Idioprioniodus7 sites
- Lochriea homopunctatus5 sites
- Mestognathus5 sites
- Palmatolepis5 sites
- Lochriea commutata4 sites
- Palmatolepis glabra4 sites
- Palmatolepis minuta4 sites
- Polygnathus4 sites
- Spathognathodus4 sites
- Cavusgnathus3 sites
- Ozarkodina3 sites
- Palmatolepis subrecta3 sites
- Scaliognathus3 sites
- Siphonodella3 sites
- Ancyrodella2 sites
- Hindeodella equidentata2 sites
- Hindeodus2 sites
- Kladognathus2 sites
- Palmatolepis glabra pectinata2 sites
- Palmatolepis inflexa2 sites
- Pseudopolygnathus2 sites
- Synclydagnathus2 sites
- Wurmiella excavata2 sites
- ? Delepinia sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Gnathodus texanus, 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
9 references- Cladistic tests of monophyly and relationships of biostratigraphically significant conodonts using multielement skeletal data –Lochriea homopunctatus and the genus Lochriea5
- The Fossil Record of Conodonts in Greece4
- Mississippian (Late Osagean) ammonoids from the New Providence SHale Member of the Borden Formation, North-Central Kentucky1
- Larval and juvenile gastropods from a Carboniferous black shale: palaeoecology and implications for the evolution of the Gastropoda1
- Lower Carboniferous coral fauna of the Rockhampton Group, east-central Queensland1
- Biostratigraphy of the Great Blue Formation1
- Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California1
- Lower Pennsylvanian conodonts from McDonald County, Missouri1
- A lower Carboniferous conodont fauna from East Cornwall1
Each of the 16 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 Gnathodus texanus 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 Gnathodus texanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gnathodus texanus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roundy 1926