Dinodus

No picture of Dinodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dinodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolygnathaceaPBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 15 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 12 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 3 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 4 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 3 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya389 Mya329 Mya

15 occurrences of Dinodus on record. 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

15 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

4 formations

Wangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°ETongchejiang — 24.45°N, 108.30°ELaoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWocklum Limestone — 51.40°N, 7.84°E

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The named rock units Dinodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dinodus, 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

3 references

Each of the 15 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

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No picture of Dinodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dinodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itPolygnathacea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1939