Walliserodus curvatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WalliserodusPBDB
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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 244 occurrencesOrdovician — about 32 of 244 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 211 of 244 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 244 occurrencesDevonian488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 8 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 9 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 39 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 82 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 41 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 20 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 14 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 8 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 12 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya430.6 Mya488 Mya412 Mya

244 occurrences of Walliserodus curvatus 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

244 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

44 formations

Gun River — 49.60°N, 63.42°WGun River — 49.58°N, 63.77°WGun River — 49.57°N, 63.50°WGun River — 49.52°N, 63.52°WGun River — 49.26°N, 62.16°WBecscie — 49.78°N, 64.32°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WBecscie — 49.68°N, 63.65°WBecscie — 49.40°N, 62.33°WBecscie — 49.65°N, 63.38°WBrassfield — 39.77°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 39.37°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 38.87°N, 85.19°WBrassfield — 38.75°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 38.67°N, 85.46°WBrassfield — 38.63°N, 85.45°WBrassfield — 38.61°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 38.56°N, 85.63°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.51°WBrassfield — 38.47°N, 85.63°WBrassfield — 38.34°N, 86.07°WBrassfield — 38.07°N, 85.74°WBrassfield — 38.04°N, 85.81°WSalamonie — 39.37°N, 85.44°WSalamonie — 39.19°N, 85.56°WSalamonie — 39.10°N, 85.36°WSalamonie — 38.96°N, 85.48°WSalamonie — 38.75°N, 85.44°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.51°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.55°WSalamonie — 38.34°N, 86.07°WSalamonie — 38.04°N, 85.81°WBirstonas — 55.48°N, 24.49°EMaut — 63.97°N, 147.15°ECape Phillips — 77.48°N, 84.95°WCape Phillips — 76.27°N, 95.30°WCape Phillips — 76.88°N, 96.83°WCape Phillips — 77.53°N, 83.92°WAleqatsiaq Fjord — 82.07°N, 48.58°WAleqatsiaq Fjord — 80.65°N, 65.80°WKeel — 34.60°N, 96.50°WKeel — 34.40°N, 96.40°WKeel — 34.68°N, 96.73°WBowling Green Dolomite — 39.39°N, 90.95°WEsill Shale — 37.70°N, 83.97°WEsill Shale — 38.55°N, 83.57°WEsill Shale — 38.58°N, 83.50°WEsill Shale — 38.73°N, 83.50°WEsill Shale — 38.77°N, 83.42°WSolvik — 59.84°N, 10.51°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.44°EEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WAllen Bay — 79.13°N, 80.90°WAllen Bay — 76.35°N, 93.02°WSevern River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WSevern River — 58.70°N, 87.37°WSevern River — 58.62°N, 86.22°WSevern River — 57.90°N, 84.25°WRiga — 54.65°N, 23.33°ELaPorte City — 42.00°N, 92.03°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WSalamonie Dolomite — 39.57°N, 85.75°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.66°N, 85.72°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.56°N, 85.63°WCap Schuchert — 80.82°N, 65.08°WKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.18°N, 64.97°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.67°N, 65.83°WTirekhtyakh — 63.97°N, 147.15°EAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.81°WAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.73°W

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The named rock units Walliserodus curvatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Walliserodus curvatus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Walliserodus curvatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Walliserodus curvatus, 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

27 references

Each of the 244 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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 Walliserodus curvatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Walliserodus curvatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Walliserodus curvatus 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. (Branson and Branson 1947)