Scolopodus

Scolopodus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtopanderodontidaePBDB
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 163 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 184 occurrencesOrdovician — about 179 of 184 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 184 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 184 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 184 occurrencesCarboniferous494–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–482 Mya — about 24 occurrences482–476 Mya — about 31 occurrences476–469 Mya — about 66 occurrences469–463 Mya — about 21 occurrences463–457 Mya — about 20 occurrences457–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–445 Mya — about 8 occurrences445–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–391 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences391–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence318–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences486.85 Mya323.4 Mya494 Mya312 Mya

184 occurrences of Scolopodus 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

184 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

64 formations

Dawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EToila — 59.43°N, 24.78°EMarch — 44.49°N, 75.82°WMarch — 44.55°N, 75.77°WMarch — 44.60°N, 75.70°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 115.00°EXia Majiagou — 35.00°N, 112.00°ELower Setul Limestone — 6.40°N, 99.90°EDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°EAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 38.82°N, 116.50°WAntelope Valley — 39.23°N, 116.41°WAntelope Valley — 39.07°N, 116.72°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WKaki Bukit — 6.43°N, 99.87°EKaki Bukit — 6.52°N, 100.18°EPonon Trehue — 35.19°S, 68.35°WBaota — 32.00°N, 119.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 121.00°EVolkhov — 59.87°N, 31.43°EKechika — 57.17°N, 123.92°WLeetse — 59.43°N, 24.78°EGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WGreen Point — 49.77°N, 57.91°WZalesie — 50.60°N, 21.70°ELianjiashan — 40.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 115.00°EShan Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EShan Majiagou — 35.00°N, 112.00°EVolkhov Stage — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESkoki — 57.17°N, 123.92°WDzerom — 67.37°N, 104.10°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EGuniutan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 114.00°E

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The named rock units Scolopodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scolopodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Scolopodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

721 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 154 sites for Scolopodus, 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

52 references

Each of the 184 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. 40 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 Scolopodus

Credit
USGS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scolopodus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.