Baltoniodus medius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaltoniodusPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Baltoniodus medius 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
16 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
7 formations
- Öland C Formation8
- San Juan Formation2
- Las Aguaditas Formation2
- Lashkarak Formation1
- Sandaokan Formation1
- Vexin Formation1
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The named rock units Baltoniodus medius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baltoniodus medius and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Baltoniodus medius and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Drepanoistodus basiovalis14 sites
- Acodus similaris12 sites
- Semiacontiodus12 sites
- Cornuodus longibasis11 sites
- Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus10 sites
- Semiacontiodus cornuformis10 sites
- Decoriconus9 sites
- Microzarkodina hagetiana9 sites
- Parapaltodus9 sites
- Protopanderodus calceatus9 sites
- Dapsilodus8 sites
- Drepanoistodus venustus8 sites
- Dzikodus8 sites
- Scalpellodus gracilis8 sites
- Ansella jemtlandica7 sites
- Protopanderodus rectus6 sites
- Erraticodon5 sites
- Paroistodus originalis5 sites
- Ansella4 sites
- Costiconus costatus4 sites
- Drepanoistodus costatus4 sites
- Fahraeusodus4 sites
- Histiodella holodentata4 sites
- Lenodus variabilis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Baltoniodus medius, 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- The conodont fauna in the Middle Ordovician Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus Zone of Baltoscandia8
- Conodont biostratigraphy and global correlation of the middle Darriwilian-lower Sandbian (Ordovician) Las Aguaditas Formation, Precordillera of San Juan, Argentina4
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)2
- Biostratigraphy and biofacies of the Middle Darriwilian (Ordovician) conodonts from the Laoshidan section in the western margin of the North China Craton1
- Emergence of the Saucrorthis Fauna in the Middle Ordovician of northern Iran1
Each of the 16 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 Baltoniodus medius 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 Baltoniodus medius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baltoniodus medius 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 itBaltoniodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dzik 1976)