Iapetognathus aengensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IapetognathusPBDB
- 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 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
11 occurrences of Iapetognathus aengensis 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
11 occurrences- Cambrian19%
- Ordovician81%
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
4 formations
- Kallavere Formation5
- Alum Shale Formation2
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Anse du Crapaud Formation1
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The named rock units Iapetognathus aengensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Iapetognathus aengensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Iapetognathus aengensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Cordylodus lindstromi9 sites
- Cordylodus proavus7 sites
- Cordylodus4 sites
- Cordylodus intermedius4 sites
- Eoconodontus notchpeakensis4 sites
- Phakelodus tenuis4 sites
- Rhabdinopora flabelliformis4 sites
- Cordylodus angulatus3 sites
- Eoconodontus3 sites
- Parabolina (Parabolina) acanthura2 sites
- Parabolina (Parabolina) heres2 sites
- Rhabdinopora flabelliformis socialis2 sites
- Semiacontiodus2 sites
- Sphaerophthalmella2 sites
- Anisograptus1 site
- Borthaspidella gaspensis1 site
- Clavohamulus1 site
- Diaphanodus1 site
- Hirsutodontus1 site
- Jujuyaspis keideli norvegica1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Monocostodus sevierensis1 site
- Pareuloma brachymetopa1 site
- Parutahconus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Iapetognathus aengensis, 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
5 references- The stratotype of the Orasoja Member (Tremadocian, Northeast Estonia): lithology, mineralogy, and biostratigraphy5
- The Nærsnes section, Oslo Region, Norway: trilobite, graptolite and conodont fossils reviewed3
- The proposed Cambrian–Ordovician global Boundary stratotype and point (GSSP) in Western Newfoundland, Canada1
- Tempo of earliest Ordovician graptolite faunal succession: conodont-based correlations from the Tremadocian of Quebec1
- The Naersnes section, Oslo region, Norway: a candidate for the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary stratotype at the base of the Tremadoc Series1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Iapetognathus aengensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Iapetognathus aengensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Iapetognathus aengensis 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 itIapetognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1955)