Prioniodus

Prioniodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Balognathidae from the Ordovician.

No picture of Prioniodus 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 Prioniodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalognathidaePBDB
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 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 53 occurrencesOrdovician — about 43 of 53 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 53 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 53 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 53 occurrencesCarboniferous491–484 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences484–478 Mya — about 7 occurrences478–471 Mya — about 16 occurrences471–465 Mya — about 9 occurrences465–459 Mya — about 7 occurrences459–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–376 Mya — about 1 occurrence376–370 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences370–364 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–357 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–332 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences332–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences477.1 Mya307 Mya491 Mya300 Mya

53 occurrences of Prioniodus 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

53 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

28 formations

Leetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 59.87°N, 31.43°EValhallfonna — 79.67°N, 17.25°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ELeetse — 59.43°N, 24.78°EOspika — 57.02°N, 124.22°WAntelope Valley — 39.23°N, 116.41°WBurlington — 41.29°N, 91.46°WNaples — 42.63°N, 77.70°WBaota — 32.00°N, 119.00°EGuniutan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVaginatumkalk — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKatkoyeh — 31.03°N, 56.22°EEsbataottine — 66.63°N, 140.53°WChingiztau — 49.26°N, 78.59°EGalesburg Shale — 39.08°N, 94.60°WCherryvale Shale — 39.09°N, 94.58°WJohns Valley — 34.50°N, 95.63°WKirtonryggen — 79.03°N, 18.85°ELoobu — 59.42°N, 25.24°EBulltinden — 78.45°N, 12.97°EToila — 59.43°N, 24.78°E

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The named rock units Prioniodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prioniodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Prioniodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

346 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Prioniodus, 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

24 references

Each of the 53 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. 12 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 content0

No picture of Prioniodus 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 Prioniodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prioniodus 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pander 1856