Monocostodus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtopanderodontidaePBDB
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 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 449.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 9 of 21 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 12 of 21 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 21 occurrences541–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–491 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 5 occurrences488–484 Mya — about 4 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 4 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences474–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488.9 Mya449.4 Mya541 Mya441 Mya

21 occurrences of Monocostodus 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

21 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

Xilingxia — 33.00°N, 111.00°ECardonal — 24.63°S, 65.74°WCass Fjord — 76.92°N, 96.17°WKalladeina — 27.42°S, 139.67°EKalladeina — 27.67°S, 140.42°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDayangcha — 42.06°N, 126.71°ECopes Bay — 79.30°N, 80.78°WGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°EBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°W

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The named rock units Monocostodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monocostodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Monocostodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Monocostodus, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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 Monocostodus 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 Monocostodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Monocostodus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtopanderodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1980