Polygnathus costatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolygnathusPBDB
- 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 38 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
101 occurrences of Polygnathus costatus 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
101 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
20 formations
- Delay limestone Formation36
- Denay Limestone Formation10
- L'Izarne Formation7
- Comabella Formation5
- Lockup Well limestone Formation · Broken River Group3
- Jessey Springs Limestone Formation · Broken River Group3
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The named rock units Polygnathus costatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polygnathus costatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Polygnathus costatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Belodella11 sites
- Icriodus11 sites
- Polygnathus linguiformis10 sites
- Pelekysgnathus9 sites
- Cyrtinoides septata7 sites
- Pinacites jugleri7 sites
- Spinatrypa (Invertrypa) talis7 sites
- Warrenella7 sites
- Pandorinellina6 sites
- Pentamerella wintereri6 sites
- Polygnathus angustipennatus6 sites
- Rhynchonellida6 sites
- Rugosa6 sites
- Variatrypa6 sites
- Brachiopoda5 sites
- Emanuella5 sites
- Fidelites fidelis5 sites
- Fidelites occultus5 sites
- Gypidula5 sites
- Nowakia5 sites
- Polygnathus serotinus5 sites
- Tortodus5 sites
- Vagrania5 sites
- Ambocoeliidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Polygnathus costatus, 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
16 references- Early Middle Devonian conodont faunas (Eifelian, costatus-kockelianus zones) from the Roberts Mountains and adjacent areas in central Nevada36
- Faciès et biostratigraphie (conodontes) du passage Dévonien inférieur-moyen dans la Montagne Noire (France)14
- Devonian Transgressive-Regressive Cycles and Biostratigraphy, Northern Antelope Range, Nevada: Establishment of Reference Horizons for Global Cycles11
- Distribution comparée de Conodontes et Goniatites dévoniens des plaines du Dra, du Ma'der et du Tafilalt8
- Late Emsian-Givetian Stratigraphy and Conodont Biofacies - Carbonate Slope and Offshore Shoal to Sheltered Lagoon and Nearshore Carbonate Ramp - Broken River, North Queensland, Australia6
- Eifelian (Middle Devonian) to lower Frasnian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy in the Villech section, Spanish Central Pyrenees5
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe5
- Devonische Goniatiten aus SW-Algerien und ihre stratigraphische Einordnung in die Conodonten-Abfolge5
- Cheeneetnukiidae, a new Middle Devonian murchisonioid gastropod family, including the new genera Cheeneetnukia and Ulungaratoconcha based on representatives from Alaska and Australia2
- Middle Devonian conodonts from the Wadleigh Limestone, southeastern Alaska2
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages2
- Devonian of the Mechra Ben Abbou region (Rehamna) – new data on the reef succession, microfacies, stratigraphy, and palaeogeography1
Each of the 101 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. 4 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.
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No picture of Polygnathus costatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Polygnathus costatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polygnathus costatus 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 itPolygnathus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klapper 1971