Metapolygnathus communisti

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetapolygnathusPBDB
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 200 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 227.5 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 238 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate Triassic239–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–224 Mya — about 1 occurrence224–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–220 Mya — about 1 occurrence220–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–217 Mya — about 1 occurrence217–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–215 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.5 Mya – 227.3 Mya238.6 Mya205.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Metapolygnathus communisti on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

3 formations

Transitional Beds — 56.13°N, 123.08°WPardonet — 56.13°N, 123.08°WLuning — 38.88°N, 117.58°W

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The named rock units Metapolygnathus communisti 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.

Metapolygnathus communisti and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Metapolygnathus communisti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Metapolygnathus communisti, 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 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Metapolygnathus communisti was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMetapolygnathus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hayashi 1968