Thaleops conradi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThaleopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Thaleops conradi 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
8 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
- Wardell Formation6
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Chaumont Formation1
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The named rock units Thaleops conradi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thaleops conradi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Thaleops conradi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Pachydictya8 sites
- Escharopora subrecta7 sites
- Hemiphragma7 sites
- Receptaculites7 sites
- Batostoma6 sites
- Calyptaulax callicephalus6 sites
- Carabocrinus6 sites
- Caryocystites6 sites
- Girvanella6 sites
- Glyptorthis6 sites
- Graptodictya6 sites
- Isochilina6 sites
- Mimella globosa6 sites
- Pionomena emaciata6 sites
- Rostricellula plena6 sites
- Scenellopora radiata6 sites
- Strophomena incurvata6 sites
- Vanuxemia6 sites
- ? Pionodema subaequata circularis5 sites
- Campylorthis deflecta5 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger2 sites
- Bumastus (Bumastoides) milleri2 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus2 sites
- Ctenodonta nasuta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thaleops conradi, 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- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia6
- A Middle Ordovician fauna from Braeside, Ottawa Valley, Ontario1
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
Each of the 8 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 Thaleops conradi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Thaleops conradi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itThaleops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)