Conodiscus

No picture of Conodiscus 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 Conodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConodiscinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 469.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya471.3 Mya490.7 Mya468.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Conodiscus 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

3 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

2 formations

Dawan — 30.89°N, 111.41°EWindfall — 39.50°N, 115.99°W

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The named rock units Conodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Conodiscus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Conodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Conodiscus, 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

Each of the 3 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 Conodiscus 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 Conodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Conodiscus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itConodiscinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1936