Sagittodontus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConodontaPBDB
- 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 43 million years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
14 occurrences of Sagittodontus 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
14 occurrences- Cambrian29%
- Ordovician50%
- Silurian21%
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
- Gola Beds Formation4
- Esill Shale Formation3
- Xia Majiagou Formation2
- Santa Gertrudis Formation1
- Lianjiashan Formation1
- Pelmatozoan limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Sagittodontus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sagittodontus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sagittodontus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Oistodus6 sites
- Acodus5 sites
- Acrotreta3 sites
- Cordylodus3 sites
- Drepanodus3 sites
- Duplora clara3 sites
- Erismodus3 sites
- Golasaphus momedahensis3 sites
- Kaolishania australis3 sites
- Lophosaukia torquata3 sites
- Pseudagnostus3 sites
- Scolopodus3 sites
- Ambalodus2 sites
- Amorphognathus2 sites
- Armenoceras2 sites
- Carniodus2 sites
- Coelocerodontus2 sites
- Eoisotelus2 sites
- Geragnostus (Micragnostus) acrolebes2 sites
- Gothodus2 sites
- Mansuyites futiliformis2 sites
- Palacorona bacculata2 sites
- Panderodus2 sites
- Phragmodus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sagittodontus, 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
7 references- Late Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Gola Beds, western Queensland4
- Regional Stratigraphic Table of North China3
- Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy3
- Una fauna de bivalvos en la Formacion Santa Gertrudis (Ordovicico) de la Provincia de Salta (Argentina)1
- Estudio bioestratigráfico del Ordovicico en el sinclinal del Valle (Provincia de Sevilla, so. de España)1
- The Ordovician of the Eastern Iberian Chains near Fombuena and Luesma (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain)1
- Distribution of the Middle Ordovician Copenhagen Formation and its trilobites in Nevada1
Each of the 14 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 content0
No picture of Sagittodontus 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 Sagittodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sagittodontus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itConodonta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rhodes 1953