Ansella longicuspica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnsellaPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Ansella longicuspica 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
16 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group10
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group4
- Ospika Formation · Road River Group2
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The named rock units Ansella longicuspica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ansella longicuspica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ansella longicuspica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Paroistodus originalis13 sites
- Periodon macrodentatus13 sites
- Protopanderodus robustus11 sites
- Drepanoistodus10 sites
- Parapanderodus10 sites
- Drepanodus9 sites
- Protopanderodus9 sites
- Costiconus8 sites
- Oistodus lanceolatus7 sites
- Apteracontiodus6 sites
- Oistodella6 sites
- Drepanoistodus tablepointensis5 sites
- Fahraeusodus marathonensis5 sites
- Histiodella holodentata5 sites
- Nealeodus martinpointensis5 sites
- Spinodus5 sites
- Erraticodon4 sites
- Gothodus4 sites
- Dzikodus3 sites
- Eucharodus3 sites
- Oistodus3 sites
- Periodon3 sites
- Parapaltodus2 sites
- Periodon hankensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ansella longicuspica, 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
2 references- Middle Ordovician (late Dapingian–Darriwilian) conodonts from the Cow Head Group and Lower Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada14
- Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, northeastern British Columbia, Canada2
Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ansella longicuspica 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 Ansella longicuspica, 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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What may have been alongside itAnsella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1998