Drepanoistodus suberectus
Professor Richard J. Aldridge · CC0 · 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
- DrepanoistodusPBDB
- 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 46 million years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
273 occurrences of Drepanoistodus suberectus 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
273 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- Ordovician93%
- Silurian6%
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
63 formations
- Welling Formation59
- Shiyanhe Formation22
- Whittaker Formation19
- Allen Bay Formation19
- Bad Cache Rapids Formation13
- White Head Formation8
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The named rock units Drepanoistodus suberectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Drepanoistodus suberectus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Drepanoistodus suberectus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
539 taxa- Panderodus gracilis91 sites
- Phragmodus undatus70 sites
- Plectodina68 sites
- Panderodus59 sites
- Periodon grandis45 sites
- Staufferella42 sites
- Belodina confluens39 sites
- Dapsilodus mutatus39 sites
- Oulodus34 sites
- Panderodus panderi33 sites
- Amorphognathus ordovicicus31 sites
- Amorphognathus30 sites
- Belodina compressa28 sites
- Panderodus feulneri27 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus25 sites
- Belodina23 sites
- Pseudobelodina23 sites
- Pseudobelodina dispansa22 sites
- Aphelognathus21 sites
- Protopanderodus21 sites
- Pseudooneotodus beckmanni21 sites
- Culumbodina18 sites
- Walliserodus curvatus18 sites
- Paroistodus17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 188 sites for Drepanoistodus suberectus, 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
52 references- Articulate brachiopods of the Viola Formation (Ordovician) in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma42
- Upper Ordovician – Upper Silurian conodont biostratigraphy, Devon Island and southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands, with implications for regional stratigraphy, eustasy, and thermal maturation24
- Upper Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies from the Sigang section, Neixiang, Henan, central China22
- Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin19
- Conodonts from Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata, Whittaker Formation, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories16
- Upper Bromide Formation and Viola Group (Middle and Upper Ordovician) in Eastern Oklahoma - Part II - Conodont Biostratigraphy of Fite Formation16
- Ordovician conodonts from the Ship Point and Bad Cache Rapids Formations, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin15
- Conodont paleontology and biostratigraphy of Ordovician carbonates and petroliferous carbonates on Southampton, Baffin, and Akpatok islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic10
- Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report10
- Conodonts from the Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian carbonate platform of North Greenland9
- Integrated Upper Ordovician - lower Silurian biostratigraphy of the Grötlingbo-1 core section, Sweden8
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Advance Formation, a new upper Middle Ordovician unit, northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia6
Each of the 273 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. 40 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 Drepanoistodus suberectus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Professor Richard J. Aldridge
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows 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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What may have been alongside itDrepanoistodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson and Mehl 1933)