Erraticodon

Erraticodon is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Chirognathidae.

Erraticodon

Eksp. · 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
PrioniodininaPBDB
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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 42 of 42 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya452.8 Mya477.7 Mya444.6 Mya

42 occurrences of Erraticodon 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

42 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

20 formations

San Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WLas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WShallow Bay — 49.96°N, 57.77°WAntelope Valley — 39.23°N, 116.41°WKrivaya Luka — 57.00°N, 106.00°EKrivaya Luka — 60.00°N, 114.00°ESkoki — 57.17°N, 123.92°WSkoki — 56.63°N, 123.78°WPonon Trehue — 35.19°S, 68.35°WGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°ESuri — 28.00°S, 68.00°WChertovskaya — 57.00°N, 106.00°EShan MaJiaGou — 35.00°N, 112.00°EKatkoyeh — 31.03°N, 56.22°ESluice Box — 42.28°S, 172.25°EGur'yanovka — 51.98°N, 87.13°EAlto del Cóndor — 23.53°S, 65.67°WSan José — 13.32°S, 70.30°WSanta Gertrudis — 25.00°S, 65.00°WNaiman — 48.92°N, 79.01°EVexin — 58.46°N, 42.51°EProvidence Island Dolomite — 44.01°N, 73.41°W

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The named rock units Erraticodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erraticodon and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Erraticodon and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Erraticodon, 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

19 references

Each of the 42 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. 7 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 Erraticodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Eksp.
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.

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 itPrioniodinina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dzik 1978