Palmatolepis

Searched as Palmatolepis perlobata helmsi. The Paleobiology Database treats Palmatolepis as the accepted name.

Palmatolepis is an extinct conodont genus in the family Palmatolepidae. It was the most abundant genus of conodonts of the Late Devonian, disappearing during the Devonian/Carboniferous crisis.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalmatolepidaePBDB
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 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 368.5 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369 Mya358.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Palmatolepis 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

2 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.

Palmatolepis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palmatolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 459 sites for Palmatolepis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itPalmatolepidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1956