Besselodus borealis

No picture of Besselodus borealis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Besselodus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BesselodusPBDB
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 32 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 20 of 21 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 21 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 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

21 occurrences of Besselodus borealis 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

21 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

6 formations

Whittaker — 63.22°N, 126.33°WRed Head Rapids — 63.98°N, 83.67°WAllen Bay — 76.35°N, 93.02°WAllen Bay — 76.78°N, 96.50°WCape Phillips — 77.53°N, 83.92°WVinini — 39.78°N, 116.17°WIrene Bay — 76.88°N, 96.83°W

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The named rock units Besselodus borealis 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.

Besselodus borealis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Besselodus borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Besselodus borealis, 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

Each of the 21 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 Besselodus borealis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Besselodus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Besselodus borealis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBesselodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nowlan et al. 1988