Ctenodontella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalletiidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ctenodontella 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Melbourne Formation · Dargile Group1
- Adam Mudstone Formation1
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The named rock units Ctenodontella 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.
Ctenodontella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ctenodontella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Lingula2 sites
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Actinolepis1 site
- Aegiria1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Cimitaria hendersoni1 site
- Cornellites flemingi1 site
- Cornellites johnstoni1 site
- Cornellites mackayi1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtodonta1 site
- Digonus1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
- Eoschizodus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glossites lingualis1 site
- Goniophora1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Leptostrophia1 site
- Lyriopecten1 site
- Mauispirifer1 site
- Modiomorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ctenodontella, 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
3 references- Lower Devonian bivalves from the Reefton Group, New Zealand1
- The Silurian and Early Devonian Faunas of the Heathcote District, Victoria1
- Peletsipodi nizhnego Devona Altaia [Lower Devonian pelecypods of the Altai]1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ctenodontella 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 Ctenodontella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ctenodontella 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 itMalletiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Khalfin 1940