Dapsilodus praecipuus

Dapsilodus praecipuus

Männik, Peep · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DapsilodusPBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence433.4 Mya426.2 Mya

20 occurrences of Dapsilodus praecipuus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

20 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

3 formations

Wink — 31.86°N, 101.95°WWink — 32.25°N, 101.35°WWayne — 35.68°N, 88.10°WWayne — 35.38°N, 87.95°WWayne — 35.02°N, 87.57°WWayne — 35.23°N, 88.15°WClarita — 34.41°N, 97.08°W

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

Dapsilodus praecipuus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dapsilodus praecipuus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Dapsilodus praecipuus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 20 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

Media content1

Picture of Dapsilodus praecipuus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männik, Peep
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Dapsilodus praecipuus 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 itDapsilodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrick 1977