Scalpellodus gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalpellodusPBDB
- 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 4.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 464.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 458 Mya.
16 occurrences of Scalpellodus gracilis 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
16 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Scalpellodus gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalpellodus gracilis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scalpellodus gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Drepanoistodus basiovalis14 sites
- Protopanderodus rectus13 sites
- Dzikodus9 sites
- Semiacontiodus9 sites
- Acodus similaris8 sites
- Baltoniodus medius8 sites
- Dapsilodus8 sites
- Drepanoistodus venustus8 sites
- Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus8 sites
- Microzarkodina hagetiana8 sites
- Protopanderodus calceatus8 sites
- Semiacontiodus cornuformis8 sites
- Baltoniodus7 sites
- Cornuodus longibasis7 sites
- Decoriconus7 sites
- Triangulodus7 sites
- Drepanodus6 sites
- Lenodus6 sites
- Microzarkodina6 sites
- Parapaltodus5 sites
- Ansella jemtlandica3 sites
- Costiconus costatus2 sites
- Paroistodus originalis2 sites
- Periodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Scalpellodus gracilis, 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
3 references- The conodont fauna in the Middle Ordovician Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus Zone of Baltoscandia8
- An integrated biostratigraphical analysis of the Volkhov–Kunda (Lower Ordovician) succession at Fågelsång, Scania, Sweden7
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
Each of the 16 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 Scalpellodus gracilis 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 Scalpellodus gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalpellodus gracilis 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 itScalpellodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sergeeva 1974)