Metapolygnathus
Searched as Metapolygnathus foliata inclinata. The Paleobiology Database treats Metapolygnathus as the accepted name.
Metapolygnathus is an extinct genus of platform conodonts.
No picture of Metapolygnathus 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GondolellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 239.48 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Metapolygnathus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metapolygnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metapolygnathus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Metapolygnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Hayashiella nodosa19 sites
- Quadralella polygnathiformis18 sites
- Birgeria17 sites
- Osteichthyes14 sites
- Gondolella12 sites
- Gladigondolella tethydis11 sites
- Actinopterygii10 sites
- Elasmobranchii8 sites
- Norigondolella8 sites
- Epigondolella abneptis7 sites
- Gladigondolella7 sites
- Gondolella tadpole7 sites
- Gondolella constricta6 sites
- Labascicorona alata6 sites
- Gondolella transita5 sites
- Labascicorona mediflexura5 sites
- Synechodus multinodosus5 sites
- Cratognathodus multihamatus4 sites
- Enantiognathus4 sites
- Minuticorona4 sites
- Neohindeodella triassica4 sites
- Neospathodus4 sites
- Prioniodina4 sites
- Triassospathodus homeri4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Metapolygnathus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Metapolygnathus 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metapolygnathus 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGondolellidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hayashi 1968