Scolopodus

Searched as Scolopodus acontiodiformis angularis. The Paleobiology Database treats Scolopodus as the accepted name.

Scolopodus

USGS · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
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 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.

Cambrian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487.4 Mya476.6 Mya

2 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

2 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

1 formation

Green Point — 49.77°N, 57.91°WGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°W

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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.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. 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 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 itProtopanderodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.