Cordylodus

Cordylodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Cordylodontidae.

No picture of Cordylodus 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 Cordylodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CordylodontidaePBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 121 of 358 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 235 of 358 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 358 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 358 occurrences541–537 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences537–533 Mya — about 2 occurrences533–529 Mya — about 2 occurrences529–525 Mya — about 2 occurrences525–521 Mya — about 2 occurrences521–516 Mya — about 2 occurrences516–512 Mya — about 2 occurrences512–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–500 Mya — about 2 occurrences500–496 Mya — about 3 occurrences496–492 Mya — about 7 occurrences492–487 Mya — about 77 occurrences487–483 Mya — about 113 occurrences483–479 Mya — about 71 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 37 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 5 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 4 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 6 occurrences459–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 4 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya443.1 Mya541 Mya417 Mya

358 occurrences of Cordylodus 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

358 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

65 formations

Bliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WKechika — 57.70°N, 124.58°WKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WKechika — 58.77°N, 127.55°WKallavere — 59.44°N, 27.21°EKallavere — 59.41°N, 28.02°ETinu — 17.37°N, 97.17°WTinu — 17.47°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 96.57°WGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°ESurvey Peak — 52.23°N, 117.22°WCass Fjord — 76.92°N, 96.17°WAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EAlum Shale — 59.76°N, 10.51°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst’Kut — 61.00°N, 114.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 118.00°ETribes Hill — 42.98°N, 74.26°WTribes Hill — 42.92°N, 74.42°WStonehenge — 38.86°N, 78.50°WAnse du Crapaud — 48.87°N, 64.21°WAnse du Crapaud — 48.79°N, 64.70°WDayangcha — 42.06°N, 126.71°ETosnenskaya — 58.24°N, 29.08°ECardonal — 23.00°S, 66.00°WCardonal — 24.63°S, 65.74°WShan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°EShan Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 112.00°ENinmaroo — 22.10°S, 140.13°ENinmaroo — 22.53°S, 140.35°EWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WGorge — 44.92°N, 73.17°WLa Silla — 30.00°S, 69.00°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 115.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 114.00°E

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The named rock units Cordylodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cordylodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cordylodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

593 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 202 sites for Cordylodus, 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

61 references

Each of the 358 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. 49 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 Cordylodus 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 Cordylodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cordylodus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Pander 1856