Oulodus elegans

Oulodus elegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OulodusPBDB
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 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 85 of 92 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 92 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–424 Mya — about 18 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 20 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 20 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 15 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 11 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–412 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya – 419.62 Mya427.4 Mya392.8 Mya

92 occurrences of Oulodus elegans 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

92 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

17 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°EMegaerella — 46.44°N, 12.87°EHamra — 57.11°N, 18.41°EHamra — 57.02°N, 18.26°EHamra — 56.97°N, 18.22°EHamra — 56.91°N, 18.19°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EMegarella — 46.60°N, 12.87°EVrabcha — 42.58°N, 22.72°EPagegiai — 56.89°N, 21.20°EKess Kess — 31.37°N, 7.30°WBurgsvik — 57.23°N, 18.58°EBurgsvik — 57.23°N, 18.70°EMinija — 56.89°N, 21.20°EJura — 56.89°N, 21.20°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°ERoad River — 65.00°N, 136.00°WNeris — 54.65°N, 23.33°EEke — 57.15°N, 18.38°EHamra-Sundre — 56.94°N, 18.31°EKudjape — 58.00°N, 22.03°E

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The named rock units Oulodus elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oulodus elegans and its relatives

Silurian

Where Oulodus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Oulodus elegans, 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

14 references

Each of the 92 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. 2 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 elegans

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
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.

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

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What may have been alongside itOulodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walliser 1964)