Oncodella paucidentata
Oncodella is an extinct genus of Late Triassic conodont. The genus was given the type species Oncodella idiodentica by Mosher (1968), on the basis of fossils from the Late Triassic of Austria. However, Mosher (1969) later revised the species name to Oncodella paucidentata, since identical fossils from the same area were previously given the name Hindeodella paucidentata by Mostler (1967).

Neil Pezzoni · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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.
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
45 occurrences of Oncodella paucidentata 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
45 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Oncodella paucidentata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oncodella paucidentata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Oncodella paucidentata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Misikella hernsteini29 sites
- Misikella posthernsteini28 sites
- Neospathodus14 sites
- Epigondolella bidentata12 sites
- Norigondolella10 sites
- Epigondolella mosheri3 sites
- Zieglericonus3 sites
- Misikella buseri2 sites
- Agathammina1 site
- Epigondolella1 site
- Jumaraina simoni1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Ophthalmidium1 site
- Parvigondolella1 site
- Parvigondolella andrusovi1 site
- Theelia1 site
- Theelia immissorbicula1 site
- Theelia petasiformis1 site
- Trocholina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Oncodella paucidentata, 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
6 references- Latest Triassic conodonts of the Slovenian Basin and some remarks on their evolution18
- Updated bio- and magnetostratigraphy from Steinbergkogel (Austria), candidate GSSP for the base of the Rhaetian stage17
- New constrains on the End-Triassic (Upper Norian-Rhaetian) magnetostratigraphy7
- Carnian-Norian biomagnetostratigraphy at Silická Brezová (Slovakia): correlation to other Tethyan sections and to the Newark Basin1
- An Upper Triassic limestone pebble with "Spirigera" deslongchampsi Suess from the southern part of the western Carpathians, southern Slovakia1
- The Norian-Rhaetian boundary in the light of micropaleontological data1
Each of the 45 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 Oncodella paucidentata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Neil Pezzoni
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Oncodella”
- 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 itFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.