Trapezognathus quadrangulum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrapezognathusPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
22 occurrences of Trapezognathus quadrangulum 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
22 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
6 formations
- Toila Formation11
- Volkhov Stage Formation6
- Volkhov Formation2
- Qumes Formation1
- Alto del Cóndor Formation1
- Santa Gertrudis Formation1
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The named rock units Trapezognathus quadrangulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trapezognathus quadrangulum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trapezognathus quadrangulum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Baltoniodus20 sites
- Drepanoistodus basiovalis18 sites
- Protopanderodus rectus18 sites
- Cornuodus longibasis14 sites
- Microzarkodina14 sites
- Triangulodus14 sites
- Decoriconus13 sites
- Drepanoistodus forceps12 sites
- Scalpellodus12 sites
- Paroistodus originalis10 sites
- Scolopodus striatus10 sites
- Acodus similaris8 sites
- Paurorthis parva8 sites
- Periodon8 sites
- Productorthis aculeata8 sites
- Nothorthis penetrabilis7 sites
- Ranorthis7 sites
- Semiacontiodus6 sites
- Brachiopoda5 sites
- Antigonambonites4 sites
- Semiacontiodus cornuformis4 sites
- Erraticodon patu2 sites
- Neumania costata2 sites
- Oistodus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Trapezognathus quadrangulum, 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
5 references- An Early to Middle Ordovician succession of conodont faunas at Mäekalda, northern Estonia11
- Conodonts and brachiopods from the Volkhov Stage (Lower Ordovician) microbial mud mound at Putilovo Quarry, north-western Russia8
- Selected Middle Ordovician key conodont species from the Santa Gertrudis Formation (Salta, Argentina): an approach to its biostratigraphical significance1
- The Ordovician conodont Trapezognathus Lindström, 1955 in the Andean Basin, Argentina1
- Early to Middle Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from the Lashkarak Formation, Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran1
Each of the 22 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Trapezognathus quadrangulum 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 Trapezognathus quadrangulum, 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 itTrapezognathus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1955