Tripodus laevis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TripodusPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 469.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Tripodus laevis 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
13 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
5 formations
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group4
- Zitai Formation3
- Kechika Formation2
- Skoki Formation2
- Toila Formation2
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The named rock units Tripodus laevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tripodus laevis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tripodus laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Periodon9 sites
- Acodus similaris5 sites
- Cornuodus longibasis5 sites
- Drepanodus5 sites
- Drepanoistodus forceps5 sites
- Oistodus lanceolatus5 sites
- Paroistodus originalis5 sites
- Protopanderodus5 sites
- Oistodus4 sites
- Protopanderodus robustus4 sites
- Costiconus costatus3 sites
- Juanognathus3 sites
- Nasusgnathus dolonus3 sites
- Oepikodus3 sites
- Paltodus3 sites
- Parapanderodus gracilis3 sites
- Protoprioniodus3 sites
- Pteracontiodus3 sites
- Reutterodus3 sites
- Scolopodus striatus3 sites
- Bergstroemognathus2 sites
- Decoriconus2 sites
- Drepanoistodus2 sites
- Drepanoistodus basiovalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Tripodus laevis, 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
4 references- Middle Ordovician (late Dapingian–Darriwilian) conodonts from the Cow Head Group and Lower Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada4
- Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, northeastern British Columbia, Canada4
- Biodiversification of Early to Middle Ordovician conodonts: a case study from the Zitai Formation of Anhui Province, eastern China3
- An Early to Middle Ordovician succession of conodont faunas at Mäekalda, northern Estonia2
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Tripodus laevis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tripodus laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTripodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bradshaw 1969