Rossodus

Rossodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the clade Prioniodontida, the "complex conodonts", of the Early Ordovician.

Rossodus

USGS · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
OistodontidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 66 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 66 of 66 occurrencesOrdovician490–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–485 Mya — about 6 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 6 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 7 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 6 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 6 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 6 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 6 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 6 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483.4 Mya469.4 Mya489.5 Mya457.6 Mya

66 occurrences of Rossodus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

66 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

18 formations

Kechika — 57.70°N, 124.58°WKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WKechika — 58.77°N, 127.55°WSan Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WStonehenge — 38.86°N, 78.50°WBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WBliss Sandstone — 31.79°N, 106.47°WDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°EDumugol — 37.08°N, 129.00°ETribes Hill — 42.98°N, 74.26°WTribes Hill — 42.92°N, 74.42°WHitt Canyon — 32.87°N, 107.18°WHitt Canyon — 31.79°N, 106.47°WManitou Limestone — 39.15°N, 105.07°WManitou Limestone — 38.88°N, 104.97°WLa Silla — 30.00°S, 69.00°WWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WChingiztau — 49.26°N, 78.59°EGasconade Dolomite — 37.95°N, 91.77°WBjørkasholmen — 59.79°N, 10.50°EGoodwin — 39.08°N, 116.27°WLas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WRupasca — 24.75°S, 65.27°WWhitehall — 43.86°N, 73.42°WCutting Dolomite — 43.84°N, 73.41°W

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

Rossodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rossodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Rossodus, 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

Each of the 66 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 Rossodus

Credit
USGS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itOistodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Repetski and Ethington 1983