Lenodus variabilis

Lenodus variabilis

Jänes · 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
LenodusPBDB
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 25 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 482.9 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 16 of 16 occurrencesOrdovician483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483.4 Mya457.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Lenodus variabilis 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

16 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

7 formations

San Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WKomstad — 56.42°N, 13.20°ELashkarak — 36.21°N, 54.23°ELas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WVexin — 58.46°N, 42.51°ENefedovskaya — 58.61°N, 39.51°EObukhovskaya — 58.13°N, 32.27°E

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The named rock units Lenodus variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lenodus variabilis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lenodus variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lenodus variabilis, 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

4 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Lenodus variabilis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Jänes
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Lenodus variabilis 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 itLenodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sergeeva 1963)