Ventricodus spurius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VentricodusPBDB
- 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 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ventricodus spurius 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
7 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
- Kechika Formation4
- March Formation · Beekmantown Group2
- Stonehenge Formation1
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The named rock units Ventricodus spurius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ventricodus spurius and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ventricodus spurius and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Cordylodus angulatus5 sites
- Cordylodus intermedius5 sites
- Rossodus manitouensis5 sites
- Variabiloconus bassleri5 sites
- Acanthodus lineatus4 sites
- Drepanoistodus4 sites
- Rossodus4 sites
- Rossodus tenuis4 sites
- Utahconus4 sites
- Utahconus utahensis4 sites
- Acanthodus uncinatus3 sites
- Laurentoscandodus3 sites
- Scolopodus3 sites
- Striatodontus3 sites
- Tricostatus3 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Cordylodus lindstromi2 sites
- Drepanodus2 sites
- Drepanodus simplex2 sites
- Loxodus2 sites
- Stultodontus2 sites
- Variabiliconus variabilis2 sites
- Acodus similaris1 site
- Clavohamulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ventricodus spurius, 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- Taxonomy, Evolution, and Biostratigraphy of Conodonts: from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation, and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian)4
- Conodonts from the March and Oxford Formations in the Brockville Area, Ontario2
- Latest Cambrian and Earliest Ordovician conodonts from the Conococheague and Stonehenge limestones of northwestern Virginia1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Ventricodus spurius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Ventricodus spurius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ventricodus spurius 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 itVentricodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ethington and Clark 1964)