Angustidontus seriatus

Angustidontus is a genus of predatory crustaceans from the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous periods, classified as part of the subclass Eumalacostraca. Fossils of the genus have been recovered in relative abundance from Canada, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and large parts of the United States, including Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, Utah, Nevada.

Angustidontus seriatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AngustidontusPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 7 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368.5 Mya358.86 Mya372.7 Mya346.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Angustidontus seriatus 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

7 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

Woodruff — 40.69°N, 116.13°WKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°ENew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WWoodford — 34.49°N, 96.44°WCleveland Shale — 41.39°N, 82.44°W

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The named rock units Angustidontus seriatus 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.

Angustidontus seriatus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Angustidontus seriatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Angustidontus seriatus, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 Angustidontus seriatus

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No 3D scan of Angustidontus seriatus 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

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

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What may have been alongside itAngustidontus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1936