Palmatolepis glabra
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
- PalmatolepisPBDB
- 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 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 237 Mya.
165 occurrences of Palmatolepis glabra on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
165 occurrences- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian96%
- Carboniferous3%
- Permianunder 1%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
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
15 formations
- Wuzhishan Formation75
- Woodford Formation12
- Evtropina Formation7
- Krtiny Limestone Formation6
- Rongxian Formation3
- Bahram Formation3
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The named rock units Palmatolepis glabra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palmatolepis glabra and its relatives
DevonianWhere Palmatolepis glabra and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Palmatolepis minuta49 sites
- Polygnathus41 sites
- Palmatolepis minuta minuta18 sites
- Ozarkodina17 sites
- Polygnathus nodocostatus10 sites
- Icriodus9 sites
- Neopolygnathus communis9 sites
- Polygnathus semicostatus9 sites
- Spathognathodus8 sites
- Gnathodus6 sites
- Branmehla5 sites
- Lochriea commutata5 sites
- Palmatolepis inflexa5 sites
- Pseudopolygnathus5 sites
- Drepanodus4 sites
- Gnathodus texanus4 sites
- Hindeodella equidentata4 sites
- Icriodus alternatus4 sites
- Icriodus cornutus4 sites
- Palmatolepis subrecta4 sites
- Parathurammina4 sites
- Wurmiella excavata4 sites
- Ancyrodella3 sites
- Idioprioniodus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Palmatolepis glabra, 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
17 references- The Lali Section: An Excellent Reference Section for Upper Devonian in South China75
- Physical and biological events across the Frasnian-Famennian boundary (Late Devonian) in continuous oxic carbonate successions in the western Tethys (Carnic Alps of Italy and Austria)31
- The Fossil Record of Conodonts in Greece13
- Woodford conodonts and biostratigraphy (upper Devonian-Carboniferous) in the subsurface of eastern New Mexico and Texas12
- Natural Assemblages of Palmatolepis from the Upper Devonian of the Northern Urals7
- A lower Famennian fauna from the top of the reefoid limestones of Mokra (Moravia, Czechoslovakia)6
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19884
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected4
- Early Famennian bryozoan fauna from the Baqer-abad section, northeast Isfahan, central Iran3
- Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)2
- Upper Devonian goniatites and co-occurring conodonts from the Holy Cross Mountains: studies of the Polish Geological Institute collections2
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species1
Each of the 165 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. 5 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 content1
Picture of Palmatolepis glabra
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Palmatolepis glabra 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPalmatolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Bassler 1926