Distomodus staurognathoides

Distomodus staurognathoides

Dr Vachik Hairapetian · 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
DistomodusPBDB
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 7.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 167 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 166 of 167 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 167 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 10 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 10 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 12 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 12 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 15 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 15 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 15 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 15 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 15 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 11 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440.5 Mya432.9 Mya450.1 Mya419 Mya

167 occurrences of Distomodus staurognathoides 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

167 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

30 formations

Brassfield — 39.77°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 38.75°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 38.60°N, 85.51°WBrassfield — 38.67°N, 85.46°WBrassfield — 38.63°N, 85.45°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.51°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.55°WBrassfield — 38.07°N, 85.74°WBrassfield — 38.04°N, 85.81°WSalamonie — 39.19°N, 85.56°WSalamonie — 38.96°N, 85.48°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 — 38.04°N, 85.81°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.55°WSalamonie — 38.07°N, 85.74°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°ELaPorte City — 42.43°N, 91.33°WLaPorte City — 42.00°N, 92.03°WLaPorte City — 42.08°N, 91.13°WEsill Shale — 37.70°N, 83.97°WEsill Shale — 37.80°N, 84.08°WEsill Shale — 38.17°N, 83.58°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°WCape Phillips — 77.48°N, 84.95°WCape Phillips — 75.62°N, 94.50°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°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.17°N, 79.04°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.17°N, 78.69°WKenny — 56.95°N, 123.77°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.30°WRoberts Mountain — 39.91°N, 116.29°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.13°N, 79.04°WEkwan River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WEkwan River — 58.62°N, 86.22°WEkwan River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.66°N, 85.72°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.56°N, 85.63°WLafayette Bugt — 82.48°N, 40.17°WLafayette Bugt — 80.82°N, 65.08°WWilliamson Shale — 43.15°N, 79.04°WWilliamson Shale — 43.17°N, 78.69°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.18°N, 64.97°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.67°N, 65.83°WWayne — 35.77°N, 87.45°WWayne — 35.38°N, 87.95°WAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WLa Vieille — 48.67°N, 65.83°WLaurier — 56.83°N, 123.72°WWulf Land — 82.45°N, 28.00°W

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The named rock units Distomodus staurognathoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distomodus staurognathoides and its relatives

Silurian

Where Distomodus staurognathoides and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Distomodus staurognathoides, 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

23 references

Each of the 167 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. 11 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 staurognathoides

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Vachik Hairapetian
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Distomodus staurognathoides 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 itDistomodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walliser 1964)