Ambalodus

No picture of Ambalodus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ambalodus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 450.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.1 Mya450.1 Mya469.9 Mya444.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Ambalodus 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

14 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

9 formations

Zagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EZagornyi — 62.00°N, 90.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 119.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 121.00°EGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EGuragir — 68.00°N, 88.00°EAmarkan — 68.00°N, 88.00°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 95.00°EPelmatozoan limestone — 38.00°N, 6.00°WCystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°WEsbataottine — 66.63°N, 140.53°W

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The named rock units Ambalodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ambalodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ambalodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

193 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ambalodus, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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

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No picture of Ambalodus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ambalodus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Ambalodus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 Mehl 1933