Scaliognathus

Scaliognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Scaliognathus

Dr A. C. Higgins · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OzarkodininaPBDB
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 84 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 4 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384 Mya297 Mya

4 occurrences of Scaliognathus 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

4 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

1 formation

Carey — 34.48°N, 97.19°W

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The named rock units Scaliognathus 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.

Scaliognathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Scaliognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scaliognathus, 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 4 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 content1

Picture of Scaliognathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr A. C. Higgins
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scaliognathus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.