Dapsilodus mutatus

Dapsilodus mutatus

Viira, Viive · 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
DapsilodusPBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 112 of 137 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 25 of 137 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 137 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 7 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 13 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 14 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 18 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 17 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 17 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 13 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–429 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences458.2 Mya425 Mya470 Mya419 Mya

137 occurrences of Dapsilodus mutatus 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

137 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

30 formations

Welling — 34.60°N, 96.63°WWelling — 34.00°N, 97.00°WZalesie — 50.60°N, 21.70°EPa Kae — 7.00°N, 99.80°EKaki Bukit — 6.43°N, 99.87°EJonstorp — 58.53°N, 14.98°EJonstorp — 60.94°N, 15.08°EKeel — 34.10°N, 97.20°WKeel — 34.60°N, 96.50°WKeel — 34.40°N, 96.40°WSalamonie — 39.10°N, 85.36°WSalamonie — 38.96°N, 85.48°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.51°WSalamonie — 38.48°N, 85.55°WSalamonie — 38.34°N, 86.07°WSalamonie — 38.04°N, 85.81°WPagoda — 28.39°N, 106.40°EBad Cache Rapids — 68.00°N, 85.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WSalamonie Dolomite — 40.03°N, 85.34°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.66°N, 85.72°WSalamonie Dolomite — 38.56°N, 85.63°WBainbridge — 37.83°N, 89.88°WGuniutan — 28.39°N, 106.40°EGlenwood, Platteville, Decorah — 44.67°N, 92.33°WGlenwood, Platteville, Decorah — 43.02°N, 91.18°WSugar River Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WSugar River Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WKraluv Dvur — 49.87°N, 14.00°EBrassfield — 38.67°N, 85.46°WBrassfield — 38.63°N, 85.45°WLower Setul Limestone — 6.40°N, 99.90°EUpper Setul Limestone — 6.40°N, 99.90°EEsill Shale — 37.80°N, 84.08°WWolayer — 46.62°N, 12.88°EAmadjuak — 68.00°N, 85.00°WLoka — 58.53°N, 14.98°EDomusnovas — 40.32°N, 8.65°E

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The named rock units Dapsilodus mutatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dapsilodus mutatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dapsilodus mutatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

295 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Dapsilodus mutatus, 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

26 references

Each of the 137 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. 14 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 Dapsilodus mutatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Viira, Viive
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Dapsilodus mutatus 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 itDapsilodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson and Mehl 1933)