Rexroadus
Professor Richard J. Aldridge · CC0 · 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
- ConodontaPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
121 occurrences of Rexroadus 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
121 occurrences- Ordovician6%
- Silurian94%
- Devonianunder 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
16 formations
- Becscie Formation58
- Gun River Formation13
- Solvik Formation8
- Cape Phillips Formation7
- Brassfield Formation6
- Nurmekund Formation5
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The named rock units Rexroadus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rexroadus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Rexroadus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Distomodus kentuckyensis17 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus17 sites
- Ozarkodina hassi15 sites
- Walliserodus curvatus15 sites
- Ozarkodina oldhamensis14 sites
- Icriodella11 sites
- Ozarkodina10 sites
- Panderodus panderi9 sites
- Pseudooneotodus beckmanni8 sites
- Decoriconus fragilis7 sites
- Panderodus7 sites
- Oulodus5 sites
- Dapsilodus obliquicostatus4 sites
- Decoriconus3 sites
- Icriodella deflecta3 sites
- Panderodus gracilis3 sites
- Panderodus serratus3 sites
- Pseudooneotodus3 sites
- Kockelella manitoulinensis2 sites
- Acodus1 site
- Aechmina1 site
- Aphanonema aff. mullochensis1 site
- Aspelundia1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Rexroadus, 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
16 references- A New Llandovery (Early Silurian) Conodont Biozonation and Conodonts from the Becscie,Merrimack, and Gun River Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec71
- Local variations in the distribution of Silurian conodonts of the Distomodus kentuckyensis Zone of the Oslo Region, Norway12
- Hirnantian (Ordovician) through Wenlock (Silurian) conodont biostratigraphy, bioevents, and integration with graptolite biozones, Cape Phillips Formation slope facies, Cornwallis Island, Canadian Arctic Islands8
- Stratigraphy and conodont paleontology of the Salamonie Dolomite and Lee Creek Member of the Brassfield Limestone (Silurian) in southeastern Indiana and adjacent Kentucky6
- Age of the Kalana Lagerstätte, early Silurian, Estonia4
- Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy4
- Restudy of conodonts (Late Ordovician – Early Silurian) from the Edgewood Group, Clarksville, Missouri3
- Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin2
- Gaspé Peninsula, Baie des Chaleurs area2
- Conodont biostratigraphy across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Québec2
- Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report2
- Upper Ordovician – Upper Silurian conodont biostratigraphy, Devon Island and southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands, with implications for regional stratigraphy, eustasy, and thermal maturation1
Each of the 121 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. 4 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 Rexroadus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Professor Richard J. Aldridge
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rexroadus 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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What may have been alongside itConodonta through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang and Barnes 2002