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Archaeognathidae ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | family (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Conodonta : Archaeognathidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 479 - 468 Ma Ordovician | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 458 - 453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | marine (based on Vertebrata) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Conodonta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | well-developed (based on Conodonta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | carnivore (based on Conodonta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Conodonta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | H. W. Miller. 1969. Youngquistina mitteni, new genus and species of Chordate from the Harding Sandstone (Ordovician) of Colorado. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 71:504-508 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Archeognathus ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 4 | 479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician | 458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1969 | Archaeognathidae Miller p. 504 fig. 1 |
2017 | Archeognathidae Liu et al. p. 498 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!