Apteracontiodus
No picture of Apteracontiodus 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 Apteracontiodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConodontaPBDB
- 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.
7 occurrences of Apteracontiodus 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
7 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
2 formations
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group4
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group3
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The named rock units Apteracontiodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apteracontiodus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Apteracontiodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Parapanderodus7 sites
- Paroistodus originalis7 sites
- Periodon macrodentatus7 sites
- Protopanderodus robustus7 sites
- Ansella longicuspica6 sites
- Costiconus6 sites
- Drepanodus6 sites
- Drepanoistodus6 sites
- Fahraeusodus marathonensis5 sites
- Protopanderodus5 sites
- Drepanoistodus tablepointensis4 sites
- Erraticodon4 sites
- Oistodella4 sites
- Oistodus lanceolatus4 sites
- Spinodus4 sites
- Dzikodus3 sites
- Gothodus3 sites
- Histiodella holodentata3 sites
- Nealeodus martinpointensis3 sites
- Oistodus3 sites
- Periodon3 sites
- Diaphorodus2 sites
- Parapaltodus2 sites
- Tripodus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Apteracontiodus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Apteracontiodus 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 Apteracontiodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apteracontiodus 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 itConodonta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bauer 2010