Gomphodus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThelodontidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At least 329 million years on record.
The record covers at least 423 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
12 occurrences of Gomphodus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
12 occurrences- Silurian75%
- Devonian8%
- Late Cretaceous17%
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
8 formations
- Hemse Beds Formation2
- Bilá Formation2
- Himmiste Formation1
- Uduvere Beds Formation1
- Aigu Formation1
- Loo Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Gomphodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gomphodus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Gomphodus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Nostolepis striata8 sites
- Thelodus6 sites
- Thelodus parvidens6 sites
- Loganellia5 sites
- Andreolepis hedei3 sites
- Katoporus3 sites
- Nostolepis gracilis3 sites
- Onchus tenuistriatus3 sites
- Thelodus trilobatus3 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte)2 sites
- Ancistrocrania2 sites
- Anthophyllum2 sites
- Arthraster cristatus2 sites
- Cretiscalpellum glabrum2 sites
- Cyclothyris2 sites
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata2 sites
- Hyotissa semiplana2 sites
- Isocrinus lanceolatus2 sites
- Metopaster2 sites
- Metopaster thoracifer2 sites
- Necrocarcinus2 sites
- Nymphaster2 sites
- Ophiuroidea2 sites
- Paranomotodon angustidens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Gomphodus, 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- Distribution of vertebrates in the Silurian of Estonia6
- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)2
- Fragliche actinopterygier-Schuppen aus dem Silur Gotlands2
- The Early Devonian armoured agnathans of Podolia, Ukraine1
- Grounding of the Stratigraphy of Silurian shallow - water marine and lagoonal rocks in East Lithuania1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Gomphodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gomphodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itThelodontidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pander 1856