Phakelodus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaconodontidaPBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 88 of 118 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 30 of 118 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 118 occurrences541–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–534 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences531–527 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences527–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–517 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 1 occurrence504–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 10 occurrences498–494 Mya — about 15 occurrences494–491 Mya — about 16 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 31 occurrences488–484 Mya — about 15 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 10 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 10 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya486.4 Mya541 Mya441 Mya

118 occurrences of Phakelodus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

118 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

26 formations

Chingiztau — 49.41°N, 79.14°EChingiztau — 49.26°N, 78.58°EAlum Shale — 59.76°N, 10.51°EAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EFengshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EFengshan — 42.06°N, 126.71°EHwajeol — 37.07°N, 129.15°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°ETinu — 17.37°N, 97.17°WTinu — 17.47°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 96.57°WKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EShallow Bay — 49.83°N, 57.87°WCwmhesgen — 52.86°N, 3.81°WGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°ELadoga — 60.14°N, 32.56°ELadoga — 59.73°N, 30.45°EGorge — 44.92°N, 73.17°WKushan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°EAnse du Crapaud — 48.87°N, 64.21°WAnse du Crapaud — 48.79°N, 64.70°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WMerevale Shales — 52.25°N, 1.38°WSiyangshan — 28.82°N, 118.60°EChangshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°ECardonal — 24.63°S, 65.74°WDayangcha — 42.06°N, 126.71°E

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The named rock units Phakelodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phakelodus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Phakelodus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Phakelodus, 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

27 references

Each of the 118 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. 15 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Phakelodus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1984