Drepanoistodus

Drepanoistodus

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
DrepanoistodontidaePBDB
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 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 664 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 639 of 664 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 17 of 664 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 664 occurrences541–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–533 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences533–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–525 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–512 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences512–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–487 Mya — about 4 occurrences487–483 Mya — about 20 occurrences483–479 Mya — about 28 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 36 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 55 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 93 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 59 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 55 occurrences459–454 Mya — about 52 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 84 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 112 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 49 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–421 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences421–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya440.5 Mya541 Mya417 Mya

664 occurrences of Drepanoistodus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

664 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

143 formations

Welling — 34.60°N, 96.63°WWelling — 35.82°N, 94.93°WWelling — 35.74°N, 94.04°WWelling — 34.00°N, 97.00°WSan Juan — 32.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WShiyanhe — 33.08°N, 111.67°EToila — 59.43°N, 24.78°EGreen Point — 49.85°N, 57.80°WGreen Point — 49.77°N, 57.91°WVolkhov Stage — 59.87°N, 31.43°ELas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WWhittaker — 63.22°N, 126.33°WWhittaker — 62.50°N, 125.25°WAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WAllen Bay — 79.13°N, 80.90°WAllen Bay — 76.35°N, 93.02°WAllen Bay — 76.78°N, 96.50°WAllen Bay — 76.92°N, 96.73°WVolkhov — 59.87°N, 31.43°EZitai — 30.28°N, 117.37°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EKechika — 57.17°N, 123.92°WKechika — 57.70°N, 124.58°WKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WKechika — 58.77°N, 127.55°WÖland C — 57.11°N, 16.89°EBad Cache Rapids — 68.00°N, 85.00°WKomstad — 56.42°N, 13.20°EDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WDenley Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WWhite Head — 48.58°N, 68.18°WAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°WAdvance — 56.18°N, 123.45°WAdze — 57.12°N, 18.41°EShallow Bay — 49.96°N, 57.77°WRed Head Rapids — 63.98°N, 83.67°WRed Head Rapids — 56.77°N, 90.83°WRed Head Rapids — 56.68°N, 88.77°WRed Head Rapids — 57.90°N, 84.25°WLeetse — 59.43°N, 24.78°EPortage Chute — 56.77°N, 90.83°WPortage Chute — 56.68°N, 88.77°WPortage Chute — 58.62°N, 86.22°WPortage Chute — 57.90°N, 84.25°W

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The named rock units Drepanoistodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 119 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Drepanoistodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Drepanoistodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

934 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 446 sites for Drepanoistodus, and this reads 240 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

112 references

Each of the 664 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. 100 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 Drepanoistodus

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.

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

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What may have been alongside itDrepanoistodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindstrom 1971