Orodus micropterygius
No picture of Orodus micropterygius 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 Orodus micropterygius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Holocephali
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Holocephali
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holocephali
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 307 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Orodus micropterygius on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Orodus micropterygius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orodus micropterygius and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Orodus micropterygius and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Glikmanius occidentalis3 sites
- Heslerodus divergens3 sites
- Cervifurca nasuta2 sites
- Iniopera richardsoni2 sites
- Sibyrhynchus denisoni2 sites
- Stethacanthulus meccaensis2 sites
- Bethacanthus insolitus1 site
- Danaea meccaensis1 site
- Iniopteryx rushlaui1 site
- Promexyele bairdi1 site
- Promexyele peyeri1 site
- Stethacanthus altonensis1 site
- Stethacanthus longipeniculus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orodus micropterygius, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Orodus micropterygius 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 Orodus micropterygius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orodus micropterygius 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 itOrodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl 1981