Palmatolepis ultima

Palmatolepis ultima

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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 most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 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 29 of 29 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 29 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 3 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 2 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375.7 Mya358.4 Mya

29 occurrences of Palmatolepis ultima 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

29 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

Beul — 51.39°N, 7.87°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EToc Tat — 23.28°N, 105.38°E

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The named rock units Palmatolepis ultima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palmatolepis ultima and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palmatolepis ultima and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Palmatolepis ultima, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 29 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Palmatolepis ultima

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palmatolepis ultima 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 itPalmatolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ziegler 1958