Rhipidognathus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhipidognathidaePBDB
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 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 27 of 33 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 33 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 33 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 6 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 8 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471.3 Mya425 Mya478 Mya418 Mya

33 occurrences of Rhipidognathus 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

33 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

14 formations

Red Head Rapids — 63.98°N, 83.67°WRed Head Rapids — 56.77°N, 90.83°WRed Head Rapids — 56.68°N, 88.77°WRed Head Rapids — 58.62°N, 86.22°WRed Head Rapids — 57.90°N, 84.25°WShiyanhe — 33.08°N, 111.67°ESundre — 57.00°N, 18.40°ESundre — 56.95°N, 18.16°ESundre — 56.97°N, 18.31°ETureso — 82.80°N, 35.87°WTureso — 80.85°N, 21.58°WStrojnaya — 78.74°N, 102.52°EStrojnaya — 79.65°N, 96.54°ENirunda — 63.00°N, 95.00°EBur — 63.00°N, 95.00°EVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WCaution Creek — 56.77°N, 90.83°WTuresø — 82.45°N, 28.00°WAllen Bay — 76.35°N, 93.02°WHamra? — 57.00°N, 18.40°EMadaoyu — 28.78°N, 109.84°E

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The named rock units Rhipidognathus 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.

Rhipidognathus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhipidognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Rhipidognathus, 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

11 references

Each of the 33 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 Rhipidognathus 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 Rhipidognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhipidognathus 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 itRhipidognathidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson et al. 1951