Acanthodus lineatus

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On record

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

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician — about 25 of 25 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 25 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 3 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 4 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489.8 Mya442.2 Mya

25 occurrences of Acanthodus lineatus 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

25 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

9 formations

Kechika — 57.70°N, 124.58°WKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WKechika — 58.77°N, 127.55°WBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WBliss Sandstone — 31.79°N, 106.47°WDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°EHitt Canyon — 32.87°N, 107.18°WHitt Canyon — 31.79°N, 106.47°WGoodwin — 39.08°N, 116.27°WKruzhilikha — 67.12°N, 52.07°EKalladeina — 27.67°S, 140.42°EManitou Limestone — 38.88°N, 104.97°WCutting Dolomite — 43.86°N, 73.40°W

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The named rock units Acanthodus lineatus 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.

Acanthodus lineatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Acanthodus lineatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Acanthodus lineatus, 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

10 references

Each of the 25 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

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No picture of Acanthodus lineatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acanthodus lineatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Furnish 1938)