Decoriconus

Decoriconus

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
StrachanognathidaePBDB
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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 466 occurrencesOrdovician — about 66 of 466 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 345 of 466 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 54 of 466 occurrencesDevonian488–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–483 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences483–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 4 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 10 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 6 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 4 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 14 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 36 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 27 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 7 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 7 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 78 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 76 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 59 occurrences425–422 Mya — about 37 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 19 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 16 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 15 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 16 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 7 occurrences477.1 Mya413.02 Mya488 Mya409 Mya

466 occurrences of Decoriconus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

466 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

83 formations

Wayne — 36.20°N, 86.92°WWayne — 36.07°N, 86.98°WWayne — 35.77°N, 87.45°WWayne — 36.37°N, 86.77°WWayne — 35.68°N, 88.10°WWayne — 35.38°N, 87.95°WWayne — 35.47°N, 87.60°WWayne — 35.32°N, 87.75°WWayne — 35.63°N, 87.63°WWayne — 35.02°N, 87.57°WWayne — 35.23°N, 88.15°WHenryhouse — 34.41°N, 97.08°WRauchkofel — 46.60°N, 12.87°EJaani — 58.52°N, 24.68°EWink — 31.86°N, 101.95°WWink — 32.25°N, 101.35°WPetes — 57.20°N, 18.23°EPetes — 57.26°N, 18.37°EGun River — 49.60°N, 63.42°WGun River — 49.58°N, 63.77°WGun River — 49.57°N, 63.50°WGun River — 49.52°N, 63.52°WGun River — 49.26°N, 62.16°WToila — 59.43°N, 24.78°EJaagarahu — 58.35°N, 22.08°EBirstonas — 55.48°N, 24.49°EClarita — 34.41°N, 97.08°WCape Phillips — 77.48°N, 84.95°WCape Phillips — 77.53°N, 83.92°WMaut — 63.97°N, 147.15°EHalla — 57.35°N, 18.20°EHalla — 57.30°N, 18.15°ECamelford Limestone — 32.95°S, 148.83°EHohe Warte — 46.60°N, 12.87°EHossei — 33.93°N, 6.83°WÖland C — 57.11°N, 16.89°EWhittaker — 63.22°N, 126.33°WSaarde — 58.32°N, 25.50°EBurgsvik — 57.23°N, 18.70°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.33°ERacine — 43.10°N, 87.92°WKuldiga — 57.12°N, 18.41°E

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The named rock units Decoriconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Decoriconus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Decoriconus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 281 sites for Decoriconus, and this reads 240 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

57 references

Each of the 466 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. 45 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 Decoriconus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Cooper 1976