Pterospathodus

Searched as Pterospathodus pennatus procerus. The Paleobiology Database treats Pterospathodus as the accepted name.

Pterospathodus is an extinct genus of conodont from the Silurian period.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalognathidaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.2 Mya412.3 Mya

10 occurrences of Pterospathodus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

10 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

2 formations

Cape Phillips — 76.27°N, 95.30°WCape Phillips — 76.88°N, 96.83°WKok — 46.62°N, 12.88°E

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The named rock units Pterospathodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterospathodus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pterospathodus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Pterospathodus, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 Pterospathodus 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 Pterospathodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pterospathodus 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

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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. Walliser 1964