Pristognathus bighornensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PristognathusPBDB
- 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 5.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pristognathus bighornensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pristognathus bighornensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pristognathus bighornensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pristognathus bighornensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Anthozoa1 site
- Isotelus rex1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Oulodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pristognathus bighornensis, 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
2 references- Conodonts from the Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian carbonate platform of North Greenland2
- The world's biggest trilobite - Isotelus rex new species from the Upper Ordovician of northern Manitoba, Canada1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Pristognathus bighornensis 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 Pristognathus bighornensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pristognathus bighornensis 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 itPristognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stone and furnish 1959