Conchodus
Conchodus is an extinct genus of marine lungfish which lived during the Devonian period.
No picture of Conchodus 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 Conchodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChirodipteridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 385.9 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
12 occurrences of Conchodus 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
12 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Aruküla Formation1
- Dankov-Lebedyan Beds Formation1
- Turgenevo Formation1
- Tērvete Formation1
- Old Red Sandstone Formation1
- Alves Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Conchodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conchodus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Conchodus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Glyptolepis5 sites
- Gyrolepis (Holoptychius) giganteus4 sites
- Holoptychius nobilissimus4 sites
- Asterolepis maxima2 sites
- Cryptolepis grossi2 sites
- Dipterus2 sites
- Eustenopteron2 sites
- Glyptopomus2 sites
- Moythomasia2 sites
- Plourdosteus2 sites
- Psammosteus taylori2 sites
- Tuberospina2 sites
- Acanthodes lopatini1 site
- Acanthodii1 site
- Acrolepis reticulata1 site
- Actinolepis tuberculata1 site
- Asterolepis1 site
- Asterolepis alta1 site
- Asterolepis estonica1 site
- Bothriolepis alvesiensis1 site
- Bothriolepis cf hydrophila1 site
- Bothriolepis ciecere1 site
- Bothriolepis gigantea1 site
- Bothriolepis jani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Conchodus, 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
9 references- Late Devonian fossil fishes sites of Scotland3
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates2
- Taphonomy of the vertebrate bone beds from the Klūnas fossil site, Upper Devonian Tērvete Formation of Latvia1
- Dipnoans from the Upper Devonian Locality Rybnitsa in Oryol Region1
- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus1
- Mid- and Late Devonian fossil fishes sites of England and Wales1
- The Old Red Sandstone Antiarchs of Scotland: Family Bothriolepididae1
- Dwudyszne ryby dewońskie Gór Swiętokrzyskich1
- Upper Devonian fish from Colorado1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Conchodus 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 Conchodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Conchodus 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Conchodus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChirodipteridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1848