Panderodus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PanderodontidaePBDB
- 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 88 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
4,522 occurrences of Panderodus 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
4,522 occurrences- Ordovician16%
- Silurian72%
- Devonian11%
- Carboniferousunder 1%
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
299 formations
- Wayne Formation180
- Esill Shale Formation145
- Much Wenlock Limestone Formation132
- Roberts Mountain Formation98
- Gun River Formation97
- Sundre Formation · sudret Group97
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The named rock units Panderodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 275 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 425 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Panderodus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Panderodus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
1,362 taxa- Oulodus57 sites
- Drepanoistodus suberectus51 sites
- Wurmiella excavata51 sites
- Belodella39 sites
- Belodina34 sites
- Ozarkodina34 sites
- Pseudooneotodus bicornis30 sites
- Phragmodus undatus25 sites
- Icriodus24 sites
- Phragmodus22 sites
- Walliserodus sancticlairi21 sites
- Aphelognathus19 sites
- Oistodus19 sites
- Scandodus19 sites
- Drepanodus18 sites
- Belodina compressa17 sites
- Drepanoistodus17 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens17 sites
- Ozarkodina sagitta17 sites
- Paroistodus17 sites
- Pseudooneotodus beckmanni17 sites
- Gypidula16 sites
- Polygnathus16 sites
- Polyplacognathus16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,223 sites for Panderodus, 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
184 references- Conodonts from the Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian carbonate platform of North Greenland394
- Vertebrate dermal remains and conodont distribution in the upper Silurian Hamra and Sundre formations of Gotland, Sweden224
- (Embargoed dataset for a paper in preparation)187
- A New Llandovery (Early Silurian) Conodont Biozonation and Conodonts from the Becscie,Merrimack, and Gun River Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec186
- Wenlockian (Silurian) Conodont Biostratigraphy, Biofacies, and Carbonate Lithofacies, Wayne Formation, Central Tennessee180
- Siluro-Devonian conodonts from the Camelford Limestone, Wellington, New South Wales, Australia163
- Thelodonts and distribution of associated conodonts from the Llandovery-lowermost Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland160
- Conodont Stratigraphy, Facies-Related Distribution Patterns and Stable Isotopes (Carbon and Oxygen)of the Uppermost Silurian to Lower Devonian Seewarte Section(Carnic Alps, Carinthia, Austria)152
- Harnessing stratigraphic bias at the section scale: conodont diversity in the Homerian (Silurian) of the midland platform, England147
- Late Pridoli, Lochkovian, and early Pragian conodonts from the Gap area between Larras Lee and Eurimbla, central western NSW, Austalia145
- Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy145
- Upper Ordovician – Upper Silurian conodont biostratigraphy, Devon Island and southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands, with implications for regional stratigraphy, eustasy, and thermal maturation132
Each of the 4,522 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. 172 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Panderodus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Prehistorica
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- The Geology Museum
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Panderodus unicostatus · uwgm:UW:4001/7
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ethington 1959