Oulodus

Oulodus

Professor Richard J. Aldridge · 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
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 243 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 227.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1361 occurrencesOrdovician — about 114 of 1361 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 923 of 1361 occurrencesDevonian — about 259 of 1361 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 56 of 1361 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 1361 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1361 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 1361 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 1361 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1361 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–453 Mya — about 20 occurrences453–444 Mya — about 84 occurrences444–434 Mya — about 255 occurrences434–424 Mya — about 385 occurrences424–415 Mya — about 423 occurrences415–405 Mya — about 83 occurrences405–395 Mya — about 7 occurrences395–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–376 Mya — about 10 occurrences376–366 Mya — about 13 occurrences366–356 Mya — about 7 occurrences356–346 Mya — about 7 occurrences346–337 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–327 Mya — about 26 occurrences327–317 Mya — about 13 occurrences317–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–239 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences239–229 Mya — about 3 occurrences229–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–210 Mya — about 1 occurrence210–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471.3 Mya227.5 Mya492 Mya200 Mya

1,361 occurrences of Oulodus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1,361 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

183 formations

Sundre — 56.91°N, 18.19°ESundre — 57.00°N, 18.40°ESundre — 56.98°N, 18.28°ESundre — 56.93°N, 18.29°ESundre — 56.91°N, 18.15°ESundre — 56.95°N, 18.70°ERauchkofel — 46.60°N, 12.87°EGun River — 49.60°N, 63.42°WGun River — 49.58°N, 63.77°WGun River — 49.57°N, 63.50°WGun River — 49.52°N, 63.52°WGun River — 49.26°N, 62.16°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.30°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.31°WLochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°ELochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkov — 50.02°N, 14.32°EHamra — 57.11°N, 18.41°EHamra — 57.02°N, 18.26°EHamra — 56.95°N, 18.16°EHamra — 56.97°N, 18.23°EHamra — 56.91°N, 18.14°EEsill Shale — 37.70°N, 83.97°WEsill Shale — 37.80°N, 84.08°WEsill Shale — 38.22°N, 83.65°WEsill Shale — 38.55°N, 83.57°WEsill Shale — 38.58°N, 83.50°WEsill Shale — 38.73°N, 83.50°WEsill Shale — 38.77°N, 83.42°WGarra Limestone — 32.95°S, 148.83°EJaagarahu — 58.35°N, 22.08°EEtelhem — 57.28°N, 18.40°EEtelhem — 57.37°N, 18.81°EEtelhem — 57.28°N, 18.53°EBrassfield — 39.77°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 39.37°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 38.87°N, 85.19°WBrassfield — 38.75°N, 85.44°WBrassfield — 38.67°N, 85.46°WBrassfield — 38.63°N, 85.45°WBrassfield — 38.61°N, 85.47°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.51°WBrassfield — 38.56°N, 85.63°WBrassfield — 38.07°N, 85.74°WBrassfield — 38.04°N, 85.81°WBrassfield — 38.48°N, 85.55°WKopanina — 50.04°N, 14.33°EBurgsvik — 57.23°N, 18.70°EBurgsvik — 57.23°N, 18.58°EBurgsvik — 56.92°N, 18.13°EShiyanhe — 33.08°N, 111.67°EHalla — 57.38°N, 18.25°EHalla — 57.35°N, 18.20°EHalla — 57.30°N, 18.15°EHalla — 57.61°N, 18.80°EJaani — 58.00°N, 22.03°EJaani — 58.52°N, 24.68°ENär — 57.31°N, 18.67°ENär — 57.25°N, 18.54°ENär — 57.40°N, 18.73°ENär — 57.42°N, 18.93°ENär — 57.34°N, 18.59°ENär — 57.32°N, 18.43°ENär — 57.44°N, 18.98°EMegaerella — 46.44°N, 12.87°EPetes — 57.16°N, 18.16°EPetes — 57.29°N, 18.38°EHendricks — 43.22°N, 84.86°WHendricks — 46.06°N, 86.23°WHendricks — 45.73°N, 86.64°WHendricks — 45.41°N, 86.90°WHendricks — 44.96°N, 87.36°WHendricks — 43.71°N, 88.32°WHendricks — 43.60°N, 87.85°WHendricks — 43.47°N, 87.90°WHendricks — 43.31°N, 87.91°WHendricks — 44.46°N, 85.18°WHendricks — 44.63°N, 84.22°WLa Valute — 46.57°N, 12.12°ELa Valute — 46.58°N, 13.13°ELilley — 38.94°N, 83.46°WLilley — 39.07°N, 83.39°WLilley — 39.19°N, 83.62°WLilley — 38.95°N, 83.42°WSorve — 57.81°N, 23.25°EVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°E

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The named rock units Oulodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 159 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 132 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oulodus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Oulodus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,095 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 422 sites for Oulodus, and this reads 240 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

142 references

Each of the 1,361 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. 130 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 Oulodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Professor Richard J. Aldridge
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Mehl 1933