Stereoconus

Searched as Stereoconus circulus. The Paleobiology Database treats Stereoconus as the accepted name.

Stereoconus

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
ColeodontidaePBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.7 Mya449 Mya

1 occurrence of Stereoconus 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

1 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

1 formation

Bratsk — 56.40°N, 102.48°E

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The named rock units Stereoconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Stereoconus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Stereoconus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Stereoconus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Stereoconus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stereoconus 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 itColeodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Mehl 1933