Iapetognathus

Iapetognathus is a genus of cordylodan conodonts. It is one of the oldest denticulate euconodont genera known.

No picture of Iapetognathus 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 Iapetognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CordylodontidaePBDB
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 450 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 18 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 16 of 18 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 18 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–485 Mya — about 6 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 4 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486.85 Mya – 486.4 Mya498 Mya442 Mya

18 occurrences of Iapetognathus 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

18 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

9 formations

Kallavere — 59.44°N, 27.21°EKallavere — 59.41°N, 28.02°EAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EAlum Shale — 59.76°N, 10.51°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WTürisalu — 59.44°N, 27.21°EGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WAnse du Crapaud — 48.87°N, 64.21°WWilberns — 28.75°N, 99.23°W

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The named rock units Iapetognathus 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.

Iapetognathus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Iapetognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Iapetognathus, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 Iapetognathus 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 Iapetognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Iapetognathus 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 itCordylodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.