Erraticodon balticus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErraticodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Erraticodon balticus 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
7 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Erraticodon balticus 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 balticus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Erraticodon balticus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Drepanoistodus basiovalis2 sites
- Drepanoistodus forceps2 sites
- Pteracontiodus2 sites
- Amorphognathus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Costiconus costatus1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Martellia shabdjerehensis1 site
- Neomultioistodus1 site
- Neseuretinus birmanicus1 site
- Nileus exarmatus1 site
- Oepikodus1 site
- Oistodus lanceolatus1 site
- Oistodus tablepointensis1 site
- Paralenorthis1 site
- Parapanderodus1 site
- Paraprioniodus1 site
- Phosphannulus1 site
- Phragmodus1 site
- Prioniodus1 site
- Sinoparapilekia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Erraticodon balticus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, northeastern British Columbia, Canada3
- Early Ordovician conodonts from the southern Cuyania terrane (Mendoza Province, Argentina)2
- Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy, conodont biostratigraphy, and microfacies analysis to support 1:24,000-scale geologic mapping of the southern Lake Champlain valley, New York and Vermont1
- Ordovician Trilobites from Iran1
Each of the 7 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 Erraticodon balticus 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 Erraticodon balticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erraticodon balticus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itErraticodon through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dzik 1978