Aphelognathus pyramidalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AphelognathusPBDB
- 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 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 445.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
24 occurrences of Aphelognathus pyramidalis 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
24 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
9 formations
- Turesø Formation6
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group4
- Strojnaya Formation4
- Ellis Bay Formation · Jolliet Group3
- Vaureal Formation · Jolliet Group2
- Red Head Rapids Formation · Churchill River Group2
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The named rock units Aphelognathus pyramidalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aphelognathus pyramidalis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aphelognathus pyramidalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Panderodus13 sites
- Drepanoistodus suberectus11 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus10 sites
- Oulodus8 sites
- Panderodus feulneri8 sites
- Plegagnathus dartoni8 sites
- Amorphognathus ordovicicus6 sites
- Belodina5 sites
- Pseudooneotodus beckmanni5 sites
- Rhipidognathus symmetricus5 sites
- Walliserodus curvatus5 sites
- Gamachignathus4 sites
- Panderodus panderi4 sites
- Phragmodus undatus4 sites
- Staufferella4 sites
- Belodina compressa3 sites
- Belodina confluens3 sites
- Panderodus gracilis3 sites
- Panderodus serratus3 sites
- Plectodina3 sites
- Cordylodus2 sites
- Neocoleodus2 sites
- Paroistodus2 sites
- Plegagnathus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Aphelognathus pyramidalis, 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
5 references- Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin7
- Conodonts from the Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian carbonate platform of North Greenland7
- Conodont biostratigraphy across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Québec5
- New data on Ordovician–Silurian conodonts and stratigraphy from the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic4
- Upper Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies from the Sigang section, Neixiang, Henan, central China1
Each of the 24 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 Aphelognathus pyramidalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aphelognathus pyramidalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aphelognathus pyramidalis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAphelognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson et al. 1951)