Ellisonia

Ellisonia is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Ellisoniidae.

Ellisonia

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · 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
EllisoniidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 58 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 58 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 58 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 49 of 58 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 58 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 58 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 58 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 47 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 5 occurrences242–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences226–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.902 Mya – 237 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

58 occurrences of Ellisonia on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

58 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

13 formations

Vardebukta — 77.55°N, 14.78°EVardebukta — 77.57°N, 14.99°EVardebukta — 77.90°N, 16.95°EThinigaon — 28.38°N, 84.94°ETvillingodden — 77.57°N, 14.99°EPanjang — 28.38°N, 84.94°EKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EGerennavar Limestone — 48.08°N, 20.45°EZhitkov — 42.93°N, 132.43°EZhitkov — 43.32°N, 132.17°EZulla — 23.20°N, 56.95°EDaye — 29.16°N, 110.14°EKamenushka — 43.59°N, 132.17°EWerfen — 46.58°N, 13.29°EQinglong — 31.00°N, 120.00°EOgmata — 36.07°N, 138.98°E

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The named rock units Ellisonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellisonia and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Ellisonia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Ellisonia, 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

18 references

Each of the 58 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. 6 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 Ellisonia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEllisoniidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.