Kraussodontus
Kraussodontus is an extinct genus of gondolellid ozarkodinid conodonts of the Late Triassic in the Pardonet Formation of Canada.
No picture of Kraussodontus 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 Kraussodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GondolellidaePBDB
- 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 200 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 227.5 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 238 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
8 occurrences of Kraussodontus on record, most of them in the Late 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kraussodontus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kraussodontus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Kraussodontus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Quadralella5 sites
- Carnepigondolella zoae3 sites
- Capnuchosphaera1 site
- Capnuchosphaera triassica1 site
- Capnuchosphaera tricornis1 site
- Carnepigondolella1 site
- Enoplocampe yahae1 site
- Laxtorum1 site
- Poulpus1 site
- Triassocampe1 site
- Xiphothecaella rugosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Kraussodontus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Marine osmium isotope record during the Carnian “pluvial episode” (Late Triassic) in the pelagic Panthalassa Ocean6
- The Carnian/Norian boundary succession at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (Upper Triassic, central Nevada, USA)2
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Kraussodontus 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 Kraussodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kraussodontus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGondolellidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orchard 2013