Kockelella

Searched as Kockelella ortus absidata. The Paleobiology Database treats Kockelella as the accepted name.

Kockelella is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Kockelellidae from the Silurian.

No picture of Kockelella 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 Kockelella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KockelellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 29 of 29 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433.4 Mya422.2 Mya

29 occurrences of Kockelella 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

29 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

10 formations

Halla — 57.38°N, 18.25°EHalla — 57.35°N, 18.20°EHalla — 57.30°N, 18.15°EKok — 46.62°N, 12.88°EKlinteberg — 57.42°N, 18.32°EClarita — 34.41°N, 97.08°WWink — 31.86°N, 101.95°WWink — 32.25°N, 101.35°WSiesartis — 55.40°N, 22.88°EDubysa — 55.40°N, 22.88°EUstya — 48.57°N, 26.74°EKopanina — 49.89°N, 14.12°ECardiola — 46.62°N, 12.88°E

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The named rock units Kockelella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kockelella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Kockelella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

340 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 240 sites for Kockelella, 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

7 references

Each of the 29 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 content0

No picture of Kockelella 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 Kockelella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kockelella was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itKockelellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walliser 1957