Histiodella

Histiodella is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Histiodella

USGS · Public Domain · 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
PrioniodontidaPBDB
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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 40 of 40 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 40 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 4 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469.4 Mya445.2 Mya477.8 Mya442.4 Mya

40 occurrences of Histiodella 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

40 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

16 formations

San Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WLas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WShallow Bay — 49.96°N, 57.77°WWillara — 18.58°S, 122.67°EGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WAntelope Valley — 39.07°N, 116.72°WNaiman — 48.92°N, 79.01°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EKimaiskii — 60.00°N, 114.00°EIltyk — 68.00°N, 88.00°EAngir — 68.00°N, 88.00°EEsbataottine — 66.63°N, 140.53°WKomstad — 56.42°N, 13.20°ETekhten' — 51.46°N, 82.68°ETekhten — 51.34°N, 83.05°ESandaokan — 39.38°N, 106.87°E

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The named rock units Histiodella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Histiodella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Histiodella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Histiodella, 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

12 references

Each of the 40 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. 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 Histiodella

Credit
USGS
Licence
Public Domain
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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What may have been alongside itPrioniodontida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.