Schmidtognathus

Schmidtognathus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolygnathidaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 110 of 110 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–387 Mya — about 10 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 10 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 10 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 10 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 10 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 10 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 10 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 10 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 11 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 11 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.4 Mya371.6 Mya

110 occurrences of Schmidtognathus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

110 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

5 formations

Comabella — 42.33°N, 1.67°EComabella — 42.34°N, 1.07°EBouia — 31.38°N, 4.17°WCardano — 42.97°N, 0.87°WDonggangling — 24.45°N, 108.30°ERed Hill Beds — 40.05°N, 116.04°W

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The named rock units Schmidtognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schmidtognathus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Schmidtognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schmidtognathus, 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 110 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 Schmidtognathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schmidtognathus 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 itPolygnathidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.