Cordylodus lindstromi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CordylodusPBDB
- 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 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
41 occurrences of Cordylodus lindstromi 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
41 occurrences- Cambrian21%
- Ordovician79%
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
16 formations
- Bliss Sandstone Formation7
- Kallavere Formation6
- Kechika Formation4
- Ninmaroo Formation2
- Alum Shale Formation2
- Survey Peak Formation · McKay Group2
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The named rock units Cordylodus lindstromi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cordylodus lindstromi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cordylodus lindstromi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Cordylodus intermedius26 sites
- Cordylodus proavus20 sites
- Cordylodus angulatus12 sites
- Utahconus utahensis12 sites
- Eoconodontus notchpeakensis11 sites
- Variabiloconus bassleri10 sites
- Acanthodus lineatus9 sites
- Iapetognathus aengensis9 sites
- Rossodus manitouensis9 sites
- Teridontus nakamurai9 sites
- Semiacontiodus8 sites
- Drepanoistodus6 sites
- Laurentoscandodus triangularis5 sites
- Phakelodus tenuis5 sites
- Rossodus tenuis5 sites
- Hirsutodontus4 sites
- Iapetognathus4 sites
- Loxodus bransoni4 sites
- Symphysurina4 sites
- Teridontus4 sites
- Acanthodus uncinatus3 sites
- Prooneotodus3 sites
- Prooneotodus gallatini3 sites
- Rhabdinopora flabelliformis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Cordylodus lindstromi, 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
18 references- High-resolution trilobite and conodont biostratigraphy across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in south-central New Mexico8
- The stratotype of the Orasoja Member (Tremadocian, Northeast Estonia): lithology, mineralogy, and biostratigraphy6
- The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China6
- Taxonomy, Evolution, and Biostratigraphy of Conodonts: from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation, and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian)3
- The Nærsnes section, Oslo Region, Norway: trilobite, graptolite and conodont fossils reviewed3
- Uppermost Cambrian and Lower Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy of the Survey Peak Formation (Ibexian/Tremadoc), Wilcox Pass, Alberta, Canada2
- Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia2
- Early Ordovician conodonts from the Santa Rosita Formation at Pantipampa, Iruya area, northwestern Argentina1
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- A lowermost Ordovician tabulate-like coralomorph from the Precordillera of western Argentina: a main component of a reef-framework consortium1
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
- The new Ordovician stage standard as applied to the stratigraphic units of the western Altai–Sayan Folded Area1
Each of the 41 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Cordylodus lindstromi
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- GBIF
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cordylodus lindstromi 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. Druce and Jones 1971