Oulodus excavatus
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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 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
152 occurrences of Oulodus excavatus 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
152 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
16 formations
- Jaagarahu Formation31
- Sundre Formation · sudret Group22
- Jaani Formation20
- Burgsvik Formation · Sudret Group13
- Much Wenlock Limestone Formation13
- Rootsiküla Formation11
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The named rock units Oulodus excavatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oulodus excavatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Oulodus excavatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Ozarkodina confluens44 sites
- Panderodus equicostatus30 sites
- Wurmiella excavata26 sites
- Ctenognathodus11 sites
- Ozarkodina sagitta rhenana10 sites
- Ctenognathodus murchisoni9 sites
- Kockelella ranuliformis9 sites
- Walliserodus8 sites
- Kockelella walliseri6 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica6 sites
- Decoriconus5 sites
- Oeselia5 sites
- Oulodus siluricus5 sites
- Paralogania martinssoni5 sites
- Pseudooneotodus ? bicornis bicornis5 sites
- Pterygolepis nitida5 sites
- Rytidolepis quenstedtii5 sites
- Thelodus laevis5 sites
- Thyestes verrucosus5 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens densidentata4 sites
- Ozarkodina martinssoni4 sites
- Rhyncholepis parvula4 sites
- Ozarkodina snajdri3 sites
- Saaremaaspis mickwitzi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Oulodus excavatus, 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
10 references- Distribution of Ordovician and Silurian conodonts42
- Vertebrate dermal remains and conodont distribution in the upper Silurian Hamra and Sundre formations of Gotland, Sweden33
- (Embargoed dataset for a paper in preparation)27
- The Llandovery – Wenlock boundary interval in west-central continental Estonia: an example from the Suigu (S-3) core section23
- Harnessing stratigraphic bias at the section scale: conodont diversity in the Homerian (Silurian) of the midland platform, England15
- End-Wenlock terminal Mulde carbon isotope excursion in Gotland, Sweden: Integration of stratigraphy and taphonomy for correlations across restricted facies and specialized faunas5
- Silurian conodont faunas from Gotland4
- Ludfordian conodonts from the Kaarma Quarry, Estonia1
- Conodont-based revisions of the Late Ludfordian on Gotland, Sweden1
- Wenlock–Ludlow boundary beds and conodonts of Saaremaa Island, Estonia1
Each of the 152 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
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No picture of Oulodus excavatus 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 Oulodus excavatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oulodus excavatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itOulodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ziegler 1960)