Oulodus
Searched as Oulodus primus. The Paleobiology Database treats Oulodus as the accepted name.
No picture of Oulodus 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 Oulodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrioniodininaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Oulodus 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Oulodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oulodus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Oulodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,095 taxa- Wurmiella excavata117 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens90 sites
- Panderodus equicostatus67 sites
- Ozarkodina52 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus49 sites
- Panderodus47 sites
- Pseudooneotodus beckmanni39 sites
- Pseudooneotodus bicornis31 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica longa27 sites
- Drepanoistodus suberectus26 sites
- Panderodus gracilis23 sites
- Decoriconus18 sites
- Phragmodus undatus18 sites
- Panderodus serratus16 sites
- Walliserodus16 sites
- Walliserodus sancticlairi16 sites
- Gamachignathus15 sites
- Aphelognathus14 sites
- Belodella14 sites
- Nicollidina remscheidensis14 sites
- Panderodus panderi14 sites
- Conodonta13 sites
- Drepanodus13 sites
- Kockelella walliseri13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 422 sites for Oulodus, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Oulodus 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 Oulodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oulodus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPrioniodinina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Mehl 1933