Variabiliconus variabilis

Variabiliconus variabilis (Lindström, 1955), a relative of Variabiliconus variabilis — not Variabiliconus variabilis itself

Not Variabiliconus variabilis. This is Variabiliconus variabilis (Lindström, 1955), a relative — both are Protopanderodontidae.

Viira, Viive · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
VariabiloconusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 484.3 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–477 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484.3 Mya477.1 Mya487.4 Mya467.5 Mya

17 occurrences of Variabiliconus variabilis 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

17 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

6 formations

March — 44.49°N, 75.82°WMarch — 44.55°N, 75.77°WMarch — 44.60°N, 75.70°WDeh-Molla U16 — 36.36°N, 54.75°EBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WGreen Point — 49.77°N, 57.91°WGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WNinmaroo — 22.06°S, 138.91°EOxford — 44.60°N, 75.70°W

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The named rock units Variabiliconus variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Variabiliconus variabilis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Variabiliconus variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Variabiliconus variabilis, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 Variabiliconus variabilis (Lindström, 1955)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Viira, Viive
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itVariabiloconus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1955)