Dapsilodus sparsus

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

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 9 of 9 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433.4 Mya426.2 Mya

9 occurrences of Dapsilodus sparsus 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

9 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

Clarita — 34.41°N, 97.08°WWink — 31.86°N, 101.95°WWink — 32.25°N, 101.35°WWayne — 35.02°N, 87.57°WWayne — 35.23°N, 88.15°W

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

Dapsilodus sparsus and its relatives

Silurian

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

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Dapsilodus sparsus, 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 9 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 Dapsilodus sparsus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Dapsilodus sparsus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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