Paltodus dyscritus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaltodusPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
69 occurrences of Paltodus dyscritus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
69 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Esill Shale Formation27
- Brassfield Formation21
- Salamonie Formation14
- Salamonie Dolomite Formation4
- Bainbridge Formation1
- Wych Formation1
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The named rock units Paltodus dyscritus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paltodus dyscritus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Paltodus dyscritus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Acodus6 sites
- Panderodus5 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus5 sites
- Dapsilodus mutatus3 sites
- Distomodus staurognathoides3 sites
- Drepanodus3 sites
- Exochognathus expansus3 sites
- Oulodus3 sites
- Ozarkodina3 sites
- Spathognathus polinclinatus3 sites
- Walliserodus curvatus3 sites
- Carniodus carnulus2 sites
- Pterospathodus amorphognathoides2 sites
- Trichonodella2 sites
- Trichonodella inconstans2 sites
- ? Protathyridae <indet.>1 site
- Aechmina1 site
- Apsidognathus1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bairdiocypris1 site
- Bollia1 site
- Brachyprion1 site
- Coolinia applanata1 site
- Costistricklandia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paltodus dyscritus, 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
5 references- Stratigraphy and conodont paleontology of the Salamonie Dolomite and Lee Creek Member of the Brassfield Limestone (Silurian) in southeastern Indiana and adjacent Kentucky39
- Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy27
- Acaste birminghamensis, a New Lower Silurian Trilobite from Alabama1
- Restudy of conodonts from the Bainbridge Formation (Silurian) at Lithium, Missouri1
- An upper Llandovery limestone overlying Hollybush sandstone (Cambrian) in Hollybush quarry, Malvern hills1
Each of the 69 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 content0
No picture of Paltodus dyscritus 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 Paltodus dyscritus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paltodus dyscritus 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 itPaltodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rexroad 1967