Neospathodus

Neospathodus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Neospathodus

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeogondolellinaePBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 419 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 419 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 419 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 125 of 419 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 22 of 419 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 266 of 419 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 419 occurrences386–380 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences380–373 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences373–367 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–292 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–279 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–273 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences267–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences254–248 Mya — about 117 occurrences248–242 Mya — about 21 occurrences242–235 Mya — about 12 occurrences235–229 Mya — about 10 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 12 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 13 occurrences217–210 Mya — about 18 occurrences210–204 Mya — about 100 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 110 occurrences251.1 Mya205.7 Mya386 Mya198 Mya

419 occurrences of Neospathodus 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

419 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

29 formations

Slatnik — 46.26°N, 13.96°EHallstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EZhitkov — 42.92°N, 132.30°EZhitkov — 42.93°N, 132.43°EZhitkov — 43.32°N, 132.17°EVardebukta — 77.55°N, 14.78°EVardebukta — 77.57°N, 14.99°EVardebukta — 77.90°N, 16.95°EThinigaon — 28.38°N, 84.94°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°EDaye — 29.16°N, 110.14°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EZlambach — 47.56°N, 13.63°ETamba Kurkur — 28.67°N, 84.25°EObnica — 44.47°N, 19.24°EVikinghogda — 78.30°N, 16.71°EVikinghogda — 77.54°N, 15.08°ETobizin — 42.92°N, 131.90°ETobizin — 43.17°N, 132.00°EKossen — 47.68°N, 13.35°EGabbs — 38.49°N, 118.09°WKamura — 32.70°N, 131.30°EKuta — 6.73°S, 144.67°ELazurnaya — 43.05°N, 131.92°EKangshare — 28.67°N, 85.82°EKossen — 47.57°N, 12.94°EFüred — 46.88°N, 17.60°EVäszoly — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBuchenstein — 46.88°N, 17.60°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°E

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The named rock units Neospathodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 174 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neospathodus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Neospathodus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

488 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 267 sites for Neospathodus, and this reads 240 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

47 references

Each of the 419 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. 35 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Neospathodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Neospathodus pakistanensis · ucbl:fsl:772035

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