Ansella serrata

Ansella serrata

Eksp. · 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
AnsellaPBDB
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 1.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.4 Mya and 459.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.9 Mya459.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Ansella serrata 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

2 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

2 formations

Väo — 55.55°N, 24.10°EVäo — 55.55°N, 24.10°E

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

Ansella serrata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ansella serrata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ansella serrata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Ansella serrata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Eksp.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ansella serrata 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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What may have been alongside itAnsella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dzik 1976)