Rossodus tenuis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RossodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Rossodus tenuis 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
12 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Rossodus tenuis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rossodus tenuis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rossodus tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Cordylodus intermedius10 sites
- Cordylodus angulatus9 sites
- Acanthodus lineatus8 sites
- Drepanoistodus8 sites
- Rossodus manitouensis8 sites
- Variabiloconus bassleri8 sites
- Acanthodus uncinatus7 sites
- Striatodontus7 sites
- Utahconus7 sites
- Utahconus utahensis7 sites
- Cordylodus lindstromi5 sites
- Laurentoscandodus5 sites
- Conodonta4 sites
- Tricostatus4 sites
- Ventricodus spurius4 sites
- Cordylodus3 sites
- Laurentoscandodus triangularis3 sites
- Loxodus3 sites
- Iapetognathus2 sites
- Polycostatus2 sites
- Stultodontus2 sites
- Symphysurina2 sites
- Variabiliconus variabilis2 sites
- Acodus similaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Rossodus tenuis, 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
4 references- Taxonomy, Evolution, and Biostratigraphy of Conodonts: from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation, and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian)8
- High-resolution trilobite and conodont biostratigraphy across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in south-central New Mexico2
- Conodontes de la Formación Rupasca (Ordovícico Inferior) en el Angosto de Chucalezna, Cordillera Oriental de Jujuy: nuevos elementos bioestratigráficos para una localidad clásica del noroeste argentino1
- Well-preserved Tremadocian primitive Radiolaria from the Windfall Formation of the Antelope Range, Eureka County, Nevada, USA1
Each of the 12 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. 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 Rossodus tenuis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rossodus tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRossodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1980)