Protopanderodus

Protopanderodus

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
ProtopanderodontidaePBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 372 occurrencesOrdovician — about 372 of 372 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 372 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 11 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 14 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 14 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 28 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 55 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 20 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 17 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 22 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 20 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 19 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 17 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 15 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 11 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 10 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 10 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 9 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 11 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 17 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 14 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 14 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 11 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences477.1 Mya445.2 Mya489.8 Mya442.2 Mya

372 occurrences of Protopanderodus 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

372 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

73 formations

Green Point — 49.85°N, 57.80°WZitai — 30.28°N, 117.37°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.36°S, 68.80°WLas Aguaditas — 30.36°S, 68.80°WDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EToila — 59.43°N, 24.78°EÖland C — 57.11°N, 16.89°EVolkhov Stage — 59.87°N, 31.43°EKomstad — 56.42°N, 13.20°EWelling — 34.60°N, 96.63°WWelling — 34.00°N, 97.00°WShallow Bay — 49.96°N, 57.77°WVolkhov — 59.87°N, 31.43°EOspika — 57.02°N, 124.22°WZalesie — 50.60°N, 21.70°EWhittaker — 63.22°N, 126.33°WKaki Bukit — 6.43°N, 99.87°ESlaty Creek — 40.69°S, 172.49°EPa Kae — 7.00°N, 99.80°ETirekhtyakh — 63.97°N, 147.15°EJonstorp — 58.53°N, 14.98°EJonstorp — 60.94°N, 15.08°EKuniutan — 30.28°N, 117.37°EPagoda — 28.39°N, 106.40°ESkoki — 57.17°N, 123.92°WAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°W

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The named rock units Protopanderodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protopanderodus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protopanderodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

721 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 256 sites for Protopanderodus, 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

65 references

Each of the 372 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. 53 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 Protopanderodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
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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What may have been alongside itProtopanderodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1971