Parvigondolella

Parvigondolella is an extinct genus of Late Triassic conodonts. The most common species in the genus, Parvigondolella andrusovi, is used as an index fossil for part of the Sevatian substage of the Norian stage. Kozur & Mock, 1991 named two additional species, P. rhaetica and P. vrielyncki. Moix et al. (2007) later argued that "Misikella" rhaetica was a species of Parvigondolella. In order to prevent having two different species with the same name within the genus, they renamed Kozur & Mock (1991)'s P. rhaetica to P. prorhaetica. However, this would be unnecessary if "Misikella" rhaetica was not related to Parvigondolella. Parvigondolella is typically considered a direct descendant of Mockina/Epigondolella bidentata.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConodontaPBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 24 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 22 of 24 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 3 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 3 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 3 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence237 Mya205.7 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

24 occurrences of Parvigondolella 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

24 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

4 formations

Slatnik — 46.26°N, 13.96°EGabbs — 38.49°N, 118.09°WKossen — 47.68°N, 13.35°EKayabuku — 40.38°N, 40.67°E

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The named rock units Parvigondolella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parvigondolella and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Parvigondolella, 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

6 references

Each of the 24 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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Parvigondolella 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.

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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What may have been alongside itConodonta through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mock 1972