Pseudogonatodus
No picture of Pseudogonatodus 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 Pseudogonatodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GonatodidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Gonatodidae
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 316.9 Mya.
16 occurrences of Pseudogonatodus 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
16 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
6 formations
- Limestone Coal Formation · Clackmannan Group4
- West Lothian Oil Shale Formation · Upper Oil Shale Group4
- Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation3
- Upper limestone Formation1
- Lower Limestone Formation1
- Pittenweem ? Formation · Cementstone Group1
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The named rock units Pseudogonatodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudogonatodus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pseudogonatodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Elonichthys robisoni7 sites
- Notacmon crenatus7 sites
- Amphicentrum granulosum3 sites
- Elonichthys egertoni3 sites
- Mesolepis wardi3 sites
- Mesonichthys aitkeni3 sites
- Nematoptychius greenocki3 sites
- Platysomus parvulus3 sites
- Pseudohaplolepis argentatum3 sites
- Rhadinichthys monensis3 sites
- Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum3 sites
- Watsonichthys pectinatus3 sites
- Platysomus2 sites
- Protohaplolepis traquairi2 sites
- Rhadinichthys carinatus2 sites
- Rhadinichthys grossarti2 sites
- Rhadinichthys wardi2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Adelogyrinus simorhynchus1 site
- Andrewsolepis lochlani1 site
- Anthracosauria1 site
- Blairolepis wallacei1 site
- Braccohaplolepis fenestrata1 site
- Colosteidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pseudogonatodus, 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
4 references- Further notes on Palaeoniscoid fishes with a classification of the Chondrostei7
- The early diversification of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): hypotheses, challenges and future prospects4
- An early actinopterygian ichthyofauna from the Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation: Westphalian A (Bashkirian)3
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates2
Each of the 16 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
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No picture of Pseudogonatodus 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 Pseudogonatodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudogonatodus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGonatodidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardiner 1967