Paroistodus proteus

Paroistodus proteus

Nemliher, J. · 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
ParoistodusPBDB
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 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 475.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491.5 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 47 of 47 occurrencesOrdovician492–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477.1 Mya – 475.6 Mya492 Mya470.8 Mya

47 occurrences of Paroistodus proteus 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

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

8 formations

Leetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 59.87°N, 31.43°ELeetse — 59.43°N, 24.78°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EKechika — 57.17°N, 123.92°WMarcheta — 51.20°N, 84.69°ETosnensky — 59.66°N, 30.68°ESementsovskaya — 58.41°N, 37.53°E

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The named rock units Paroistodus proteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paroistodus proteus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Paroistodus proteus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Paroistodus proteus, 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

8 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. 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 Paroistodus proteus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Nemliher, J.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Paroistodus proteus 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 itParoistodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1955)