Oslodus semisymmetricus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OslodusPBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 456.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 12 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya456.8 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Oslodus semisymmetricus 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

12 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

Skoki — 56.63°N, 123.78°WGongwusu — 39.39°N, 106.92°EVäo — 59.30°N, 23.36°EVäo — 55.55°N, 24.10°ERobb — 56.63°N, 123.78°WAdze — 57.12°N, 18.41°EViivikonna — 59.35°N, 27.16°EVäo — 55.55°N, 24.10°E

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The named rock units Oslodus semisymmetricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Oslodus semisymmetricus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Oslodus semisymmetricus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Oslodus semisymmetricus, 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 12 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Oslodus semisymmetricus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOslodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hamar 1966)