Distacodidae

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DistacodontaceaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodontophorida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Conodontophorida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodontophorida

Time the record covers

At least 164 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 306 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesOrdovician — about 16 of 27 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 27 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous490–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–452 Mya — about 4 occurrences452–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–421 Mya — about 6 occurrences421–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences327–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477.1 Mya312.8 Mya490 Mya302 Mya

27 occurrences of Distacodidae 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

27 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

15 formations

Denley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 115.00°EBainbridge — 37.83°N, 89.88°WJohns Valley — 34.50°N, 95.63°WLunshan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 95.00°EDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°ENirunda — 63.00°N, 95.00°ECystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°WCopenhagen — 38.82°N, 116.50°WAntelope Valley — 38.82°N, 116.50°WCopenhagen? — 37.55°N, 116.12°WMinturn — 39.90°N, 107.77°W

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The named rock units Distacodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distacodidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Distacodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Distacodidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 27 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Distacodidae 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 itDistacodontacea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Bassler 1926