Ptiloncodus
No picture of Ptiloncodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptiloncodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProblematicaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 466.6 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 445.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Ptiloncodus 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
- Baota Formation2
- Dawan Formation1
- Fengfeng Formation1
- Vaureal Formation · Jolliet Group1
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The named rock units Ptiloncodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptiloncodus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ptiloncodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Panderodus4 sites
- Scolopodus4 sites
- Oistodus3 sites
- Acodus2 sites
- Aphelognathus2 sites
- Belodina2 sites
- Cordylodus2 sites
- Drepanodus2 sites
- Oulodus2 sites
- Paltodus2 sites
- Periodon2 sites
- Plectodina2 sites
- Protocycloceras2 sites
- Amorphognathus ordovicicus1 site
- Aphelognathus pyramidalis1 site
- Basilicus1 site
- Belodina compressa1 site
- Bryantodina1 site
- Chirognathus1 site
- Chisiloceras1 site
- Drepanoistodus suberectus1 site
- Eoligonadina sp.1 site
- Eosomichelinoceras1 site
- Erismodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ptiloncodus, 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
3 references- Ordovician system of the Lower Yangtze region in Jiangsu Province3
- Conodont biostratigraphy across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Québec1
- Regional Stratigraphic Table of North China1
Each of the 5 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 Ptiloncodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptiloncodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itProblematica through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.