Polygnathidae

Polygnathidae is an extinct family of conodonts.

Polygnathidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolygnathaceaPBDB
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 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 5223 occurrencesDevonian — about 4651 of 5223 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 568 of 5223 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 5223 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 5223 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 5223 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 5223 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5223 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 7 occurrences419–412 Mya — about 277 occurrences412–404 Mya — about 156 occurrences404–396 Mya — about 148 occurrences396–389 Mya — about 695 occurrences389–381 Mya — about 1580 occurrences381–373 Mya — about 813 occurrences373–366 Mya — about 640 occurrences366–358 Mya — about 374 occurrences358–350 Mya — about 293 occurrences350–343 Mya — about 111 occurrences343–335 Mya — about 23 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 46 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 34 occurrences320–312 Mya — about 11 occurrences312–304 Mya — about 9 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences297–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya241.464 Mya427 Mya197 Mya

5,223 occurrences of Polygnathidae 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

5,223 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

234 formations

Comabella — 42.33°N, 1.67°EComabella — 42.34°N, 1.07°EDelay limestone — 39.85°N, 116.27°WDelay limestone — 39.96°N, 116.22°WWangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWangyou — 25.82°N, 106.47°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EBouia — 31.38°N, 4.17°WLime Creek — 41.12°N, 95.91°WLime Creek — 42.54°N, 94.09°WSheffield-Maple Mill — 41.68°N, 94.04°WSheffield-Maple Mill — 42.54°N, 94.09°WSheffield-Maple Mill — 41.12°N, 95.91°WLaoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWuzhishan — 24.45°N, 108.30°EBahram — 32.90°N, 52.27°EBahram — 30.83°N, 57.03°EBahram — 33.04°N, 51.98°EBahram — 30.72°N, 57.00°EWadleigh Limestone — 55.53°N, 133.19°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.06°N, 133.10°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.53°N, 133.15°WLockup Well limestone — 19.30°S, 144.84°ELockup Well limestone — 19.40°S, 144.81°EBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WTelatyn — 50.95°N, 22.68°ETelatyn — 50.62°N, 23.48°ETelatyn — 51.41°N, 23.29°ETelatyn — 51.76°N, 20.49°EChinaman Creek Limestone — 19.26°S, 144.72°EWindmill Limestone — 40.04°N, 116.46°WWindmill Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.44°WA — 33.86°N, 6.29°WMont Peyroux — 43.50°N, 3.09°EKonstantin-El — 65.68°N, 59.73°EB — 33.86°N, 6.30°WB — 33.85°N, 6.32°WLochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°ELochkov — 50.02°N, 14.32°EJessey Springs Limestone — 19.40°S, 144.81°EPinyon Peak Limestone — 38.35°N, 113.15°WPinyon Peak Limestone — 40.72°N, 112.99°WRauchkofel — 46.60°N, 12.87°E

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The named rock units Polygnathidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 210 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,730 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polygnathidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Polygnathidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 713 sites for Polygnathidae, 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

199 references

Each of the 5,223 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. 187 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 Polygnathidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Polygnathidae 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.

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. Bassler 1925