Hindeodus

Hindeodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Anchignathodontidae. The generic name Hindeodus is a tribute to George Jennings Hinde, a British geologist and paleontologist from the 1800s and early 1900s. The suffix -odus typically describes the animal's teeth, essentially making Hindeodus mean Hinde-teeth.

Hindeodus

Muhui Zhang, Haishui Jiang, Mark A. Purnell, Xulong Lai · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AnchignathodontidaePBDB
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 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 354 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 50 of 354 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 104 of 354 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 197 of 354 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 354 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 354 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 354 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 6 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 10 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 6 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 4 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence318–313 Mya — about 3 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 4 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 6 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 56 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 235 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346.7 Mya237 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

354 occurrences of Hindeodus on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

354 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

41 formations

Daye — 26.61°N, 107.22°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 30.92°N, 119.99°EChangxing — 26.10°N, 106.50°EChangxing — 30.17°N, 109.00°EMajiaoling — 23.40°N, 106.00°EBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWerfen — 46.29°N, 11.52°ETalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°EHuangzhishan — 30.92°N, 119.99°EOread Limestone — 37.13°N, 96.20°WOread Limestone — 38.39°N, 95.62°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 40.99°N, 96.19°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WOread Limestone — 41.35°N, 94.30°WWerfen — 46.58°N, 13.29°EFeixianguan — 32.31°N, 105.46°EFeixianguan — 32.65°N, 105.88°ETransitional Bed — 31.00°N, 120.00°EQinglong — 31.00°N, 120.00°EKangshare — 28.67°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.65°N, 85.83°EHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EHashikadani — 35.68°N, 136.58°EWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WAbu Durba — 28.57°N, 33.30°EAleksin — 54.72°N, 35.98°EGerennavar Limestone — 48.08°N, 20.45°EE-Lert — 17.31°N, 101.73°EHodder Mudstone — 53.97°N, 2.63°WShabaowan — 26.10°N, 106.50°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.41°E

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The named rock units Hindeodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hindeodus and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Hindeodus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

612 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 183 sites for Hindeodus, 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

53 references

Each of the 354 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. 41 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 Hindeodus

Credit
Muhui Zhang, Haishui Jiang, Mark A. Purnell, Xulong Lai
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hindeodus 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.

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. Rexroad and Furnish 1964