Protognathodus

Searched as Protognathus. The Paleobiology Database treats Protognathodus as the accepted name.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IdiognathodontidaePBDB
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 187 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Devonian — about 13 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 22 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrences369–362 Mya — about 6 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 18 occurrences355–348 Mya — about 9 occurrences348–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence340–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya170.9 Mya369 Mya151 Mya

36 occurrences of Protognathodus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

36 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

9 formations

Pal Grande — 47.00°N, 13.00°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WDaihua — 25.80°N, 106.40°EWangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EStockum — 51.35°N, 7.60°EShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EYonghsien — 26.20°N, 111.05°EWhiteway Mudstone — 50.62°N, 4.20°W

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The named rock units Protognathodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protognathodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Protognathodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Protognathodus, 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

9 references

Each of the 36 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 Protognathodus 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 Protognathodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protognathodus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIdiognathodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ziegler 1969