Muellerodus

Muellerodus

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ParaconodontidaPBDB
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 6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 491 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 22 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 4 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence497 Mya – 491 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

22 occurrences of Muellerodus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

22 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

7 formations

Alum Shale — 56.35°N, 16.41°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EFengshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EChangshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EHwajeol — 37.07°N, 129.15°EShallow Bay — 49.77°N, 57.92°WKushan — 39.75°N, 118.32°E

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The named rock units Muellerodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Muellerodus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Muellerodus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Muellerodus, 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

6 references

Each of the 22 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 Muellerodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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