Thelodus parvidens

Thelodus parvidens

Agassiz, in Murchison, 1839 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ThelodusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 421.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 110 occurrencesSilurian — about 110 of 110 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 110 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 5 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 15 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 15 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 16 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 16 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 17 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 7 occurrences440.5 Mya421.3 Mya443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

110 occurrences of Thelodus parvidens 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

110 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

29 formations

Upper Whitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.70°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.93°N, 4.37°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.47°N, 1.88°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.05°N, 2.70°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.05°N, 2.57°WLudlow Bone Bed — 51.96°N, 3.74°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.00°N, 2.52°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.03°N, 2.63°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.54°N, 2.62°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.47°N, 2.73°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.27°N, 2.38°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.43°N, 3.01°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.57°N, 2.48°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.20°N, 3.00°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.45°N, 2.12°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.93°N, 4.37°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.05°N, 2.70°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.47°N, 1.88°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.70°WWhitcliffe — 52.53°N, 2.63°WWhitcliffe — 52.45°N, 2.72°WWhitcliffe — 52.07°N, 2.35°WWhitcliffe — 51.58°N, 1.87°WWhitcliffe — 52.45°N, 2.12°WWhitcliffe — 51.70°N, 2.45°WWhitcliffe — 52.05°N, 2.57°WWhitcliffe — 52.93°N, 4.37°WWhitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.70°WLower Whitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.70°WLong Quarry — 52.00°N, 3.78°WCausemountain — 51.22°N, 2.22°WGorsley Limestone — 52.03°N, 2.57°WGorsley Limestone — 51.94°N, 2.48°WUpper Bodenham Bone bed — 52.16°N, 2.69°WSedgley Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.05°WTop Ornatella Bone Bed — 51.68°N, 2.96°WTop Ornatella Bone Bed — 51.95°N, 2.50°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WVesiku Beds — 59.07°N, 24.79°EHimmiste — 59.07°N, 24.79°EUduvere Beds — 59.07°N, 24.79°EAigu — 59.07°N, 24.79°ELoo Beds — 59.07°N, 24.79°EClun Forest — 52.52°N, 2.63°WUpper Llangibby Beds — 52.93°N, 4.37°WUpper Bringewood — 52.35°N, 2.87°WPaadla — 58.34°N, 22.48°EKudjape — 58.27°N, 22.52°EKaugatuma — 58.12°N, 22.19°EOhesaare — 58.00°N, 22.02°E

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The named rock units Thelodus parvidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thelodus parvidens and its relatives

Silurian

Where Thelodus parvidens and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Thelodus parvidens, 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

9 references

Each of the 110 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 content1

Picture of Thelodus parvidens

Credit
Agassiz, in Murchison, 1839
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thelodus parvidens 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1839