Odontochile

Odontochile is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, family Dalmanitidae.

Odontochile

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
DalmanitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 47 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 43 of 47 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 3 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 16 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 5 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence404–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya399.5 Mya434 Mya381 Mya

47 occurrences of Odontochile on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

47 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

26 formations

Saheb el Djir — 31.92°N, 1.85°WSlivenec Limestone — 49.99°N, 14.33°EHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.38°N, 4.07°WCoeymans — 42.86°N, 74.80°WCoeymans — 42.90°N, 74.90°WKalkberg — 42.89°N, 74.97°WIhandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WPraha — 49.42°N, 15.86°EMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EVinarice Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDaleje Shale — 50.04°N, 14.39°ERosebank Shale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ERechoua Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WTafilalt Limestone — 31.75°N, 4.50°WTeferguenit — 31.92°N, 1.85°WUpper Jenhochiao — 25.00°N, 99.00°EPampa — 15.50°S, 68.00°WCatavi — 15.50°S, 68.00°WBelen — 15.50°S, 68.00°WErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ERothäuser Grauwacke — 51.52°N, 10.47°EKalkgrauwacke — 50.82°N, 8.77°EKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WArauz — 42.97°N, 0.87°WCortes — 42.97°N, 0.87°W

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The named rock units Odontochile has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odontochile and its relatives

Devonian

Where Odontochile and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

551 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Odontochile, 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

20 references

Each of the 47 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Odontochile

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itDalmanitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)