Thelodus macintoshi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThelodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Thelodus macintoshi on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
- Cunningham Creek Formation · Mascarene Group2
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The named rock units Thelodus macintoshi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thelodus macintoshi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Thelodus macintoshi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Acutiramus2 sites
- Cyathaspis acadica2 sites
- Ceratiocaris pusilla1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Ctenopleuron1 site
- Nerepisacanthus denisoni1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thelodus macintoshi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A partial articulated acanthodian from the Silurian of New Brunswick, Canada1
- A new American Thelodus1
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 Thelodus macintoshi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thelodus macintoshi 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 itThelodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stetson 1928