Scolopodus giganteus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScolopodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Scolopodus giganteus 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
4 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
2 formations
- Lower Setul Limestone Formation2
- Voskresenka Formation · Batun Group2
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The named rock units Scolopodus giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scolopodus giganteus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scolopodus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Bathyurellus nonnulus2 sites
- Carolinites2 sites
- Ceraurinella frequens2 sites
- Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus2 sites
- Glaphurus2 sites
- Kolymella2 sites
- Periodon aculeatus2 sites
- Phorocephala2 sites
- Pliomera fisheri2 sites
- Pliomerellus2 sites
- Pliomerellus jacuticus2 sites
- Protopanderodus rectus2 sites
- Raymondaspis2 sites
- Trondorthis sibirica2 sites
- Archaeorthis altaica1 site
- Atelelasma1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Expansograptus1 site
- Glossograptus1 site
- Idiostophia costata1 site
- Isograptus1 site
- Isograptus gibberulus1 site
- Isophragma orientale1 site
- Orthidium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scolopodus giganteus, 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 and Silurian Conodonts from the Langkawi Islands, Malaya, Part I2
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- The new Ordovician stage standard as applied to the stratigraphic units of the western Altai–Sayan Folded Area1
Each of the 4 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 Scolopodus giganteus 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 Scolopodus giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scolopodus giganteus 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 itScolopodus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sweet and Bergström 1962