Pseudooneotodus tricornis
Dr Vachik Hairapetian · 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
- PseudooneotodusPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
23 occurrences of Pseudooneotodus tricornis 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
23 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
11 formations
- Cape Phillips Formation4
- Severn River Formation2
- Ekwan River Formation2
- Samuelsen Hoj Formation2
- Velise Formation2
- Wulf Land Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudooneotodus tricornis 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.
Pseudooneotodus tricornis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pseudooneotodus tricornis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Panderodus unicostatus6 sites
- Aspelundia fluegeli5 sites
- Walliserodus sancticlairi5 sites
- Distomodus staurognathoides4 sites
- Apsidognathus tuberculatus3 sites
- Aspelundia3 sites
- Pterospathodus amorphognathoides3 sites
- Pterospathodus celloni3 sites
- Apsidognathus2 sites
- Apsidognathus walmsleyi2 sites
- Aulacognathus bullatus2 sites
- Oulodus2 sites
- Ozarkodina hadra2 sites
- Pseudooneotodus beckmanni2 sites
- Aulacognathus1 site
- Aulacognathus latus1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Belodella cooperi1 site
- Carniodus1 site
- Carniodus carnulus1 site
- Coryssognathus dubius1 site
- Decoriconus fragilis1 site
- Distomodus kentuckyensis1 site
- Ozarkodina hassi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pseudooneotodus tricornis, 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
6 references- Conodonts from the Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian carbonate platform of North Greenland8
- Hirnantian (Ordovician) through Wenlock (Silurian) conodont biostratigraphy, bioevents, and integration with graptolite biozones, Cape Phillips Formation slope facies, Cornwallis Island, Canadian Arctic Islands6
- Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin4
- The Llandovery – Wenlock boundary interval in west-central continental Estonia: an example from the Suigu (S-3) core section2
- Conodont distributions, and ages of Silurian and Devonian limestones in the Palmers Oakey district, N.S.W2
- Silurian conodonts from the Gołdap core1
Each of the 23 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 Pseudooneotodus tricornis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Vachik Hairapetian
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudooneotodus tricornis 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 itPseudooneotodus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Drygant 1974