Proconodontus

Proconodontus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the monotypic family Proconodontidae. The specimens are found in Cambrian formations.

Proconodontus

Viira, Viive · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProconodontidaePBDB
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 491.5 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 499.5 Mya to 461.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 52 of 64 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 12 of 64 occurrencesOrdovician500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 5 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 5 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 11 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 11 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 11 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 4 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–482 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491.5 Mya468 Mya500.3 Mya460.3 Mya

64 occurrences of Proconodontus 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

64 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

22 formations

Fengshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EFengshan — 42.06°N, 126.71°EHwajeol — 37.07°N, 129.15°EGorge — 44.92°N, 73.17°WShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°EWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst’Kut — 61.00°N, 114.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 118.00°EConococheague — 38.86°N, 78.50°WKallavere — 59.41°N, 28.02°EAlum Shale — 56.35°N, 16.41°ECass Fjord — 76.92°N, 96.17°WBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EFengxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMansiiskii — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst'-Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WShallow Bay — 49.83°N, 57.87°WSurvey Peak — 52.23°N, 117.22°WCopes Bay — 79.30°N, 80.78°WSluice Box — 42.27°S, 172.27°ESanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WLadoga — 59.73°N, 30.45°E

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

Proconodontus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Proconodontus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Proconodontus, 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

18 references

Each of the 64 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Proconodontus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Viira, Viive
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Proconodontus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProconodontidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1969