Amorphognathus ordovicicus

Amorphognathus ordovicicus

Männik, Peep · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
AmorphognathusPBDB
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 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 71 of 79 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 79 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 11 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 10 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 10 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 10 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 10 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450.2 Mya445.2 Mya458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

79 occurrences of Amorphognathus ordovicicus 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

79 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

27 formations

Zalesie — 50.60°N, 21.70°EAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WAllen Bay — 77.48°N, 84.95°WAllen Bay — 79.13°N, 80.90°WAllen Bay — 76.35°N, 93.02°WAllen Bay — 76.78°N, 96.50°WJonstorp — 58.53°N, 14.98°EJonstorp — 60.94°N, 15.08°EWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WIrene Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WIrene Bay — 76.92°N, 96.73°WIrene Bay — 76.88°N, 96.83°WNoix Limestone — 39.39°N, 90.95°WChasm Creek — 58.62°N, 86.22°WChasm Creek — 57.90°N, 84.25°WCape Phillips — 77.53°N, 83.92°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WRed Head Rapids — 63.98°N, 83.67°WRed Head Rapids — 57.90°N, 84.25°WCaution Creek — 56.77°N, 90.83°WCaution Creek — 56.68°N, 88.77°WWolayer — 46.62°N, 12.88°EHanson Creek — 39.23°N, 116.37°WVinini — 39.78°N, 116.17°WBoas River — 64.38°N, 84.53°WLoka — 58.53°N, 14.98°EGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EPortage Chute — 58.62°N, 86.22°WTudulinna — 57.12°N, 18.41°EKuldiga — 57.12°N, 18.41°EDomusnovas — 40.32°N, 8.65°ESchmiedefeld — 50.52°N, 11.22°EPortrane Limestone — 53.49°N, 6.10°W

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The named rock units Amorphognathus ordovicicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amorphognathus ordovicicus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Amorphognathus ordovicicus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Amorphognathus ordovicicus, 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

20 references

Each of the 79 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Amorphognathus ordovicicus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männik, Peep
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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What may have been alongside itAmorphognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bergström and Bergström 1996