Distomodus

Distomodus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Distomodus

Professor Richard J. Aldridge · CC0 · 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
DistomodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 373 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 363 of 373 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 373 occurrencesDevonian478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 13 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 81 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 91 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 55 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 55 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 33 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 13 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 12 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 5 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 5 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468 Mya425 Mya478 Mya412 Mya

373 occurrences of Distomodus 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

373 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

67 formations

Esill Shale — 37.70°N, 83.97°WEsill Shale — 37.80°N, 84.08°WEsill Shale — 38.17°N, 83.58°WEsill Shale — 38.22°N, 83.65°WEsill Shale — 38.55°N, 83.57°WEsill Shale — 38.58°N, 83.50°WEsill Shale — 38.73°N, 83.50°WEsill Shale — 38.77°N, 83.42°WBrassfield — 39.77°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 39.37°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 39.10°N, 85.36°WBrassfield — 38.87°N, 85.19°WBrassfield — 38.75°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 38.67°N, 85.46°WBrassfield — 38.63°N, 85.45°WBrassfield — 38.61°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 38.56°N, 85.63°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.51°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.55°WBrassfield — 38.34°N, 86.07°WBrassfield — 38.07°N, 85.74°WBrassfield — 38.04°N, 85.81°WSalamonie — 38.96°N, 85.48°WSalamonie — 38.75°N, 85.44°WSalamonie — 39.19°N, 85.56°WSalamonie — 38.67°N, 85.46°WSalamonie — 38.60°N, 85.51°WSalamonie — 38.63°N, 85.45°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.51°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.55°WSalamonie — 38.04°N, 85.81°WSalamonie — 38.07°N, 85.74°WBecscie — 49.78°N, 64.32°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WBecscie — 49.65°N, 63.38°WBecscie — 49.68°N, 63.65°WBecscie — 49.40°N, 62.33°WGun River — 49.58°N, 63.77°WGun River — 49.57°N, 63.50°WGun River — 49.52°N, 63.52°WGun River — 49.26°N, 62.16°WVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°ECape Phillips — 77.48°N, 84.95°WCape Phillips — 77.53°N, 83.92°WCape Phillips — 75.62°N, 94.50°WLaPorte City — 42.43°N, 91.33°WLaPorte City — 42.00°N, 92.03°WLaPorte City — 42.08°N, 91.13°WSevern River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WSevern River — 58.70°N, 87.37°WSevern River — 58.62°N, 86.22°WSevern River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WZalaa — 44.40°N, 99.33°ERoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.30°WRoberts Mountain — 39.91°N, 116.29°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.17°N, 79.04°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.17°N, 78.69°WKenny — 56.95°N, 123.77°WKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EHendricks — 43.22°N, 84.86°WHendricks — 45.73°N, 86.64°WHendricks — 43.61°N, 87.77°WHendricks — 43.47°N, 87.90°WHendricks — 44.63°N, 84.22°WRemte — 56.72°N, 21.60°ESolvik — 59.84°N, 10.51°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.44°EMaut — 63.97°N, 147.15°EIrondequoit Limestone — 43.13°N, 79.04°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.18°N, 64.97°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.67°N, 65.83°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.56°N, 85.63°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.66°N, 85.72°WWych — 52.03°N, 2.35°WEkwan River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WEkwan River — 58.62°N, 86.22°WEkwan River — 57.90°N, 84.25°W

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The named rock units Distomodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distomodus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Distomodus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

447 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Distomodus, 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

52 references

Each of the 373 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. 40 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Distomodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Professor Richard J. Aldridge
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Branson 1947