Tricostatus
No picture of Tricostatus 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 Tricostatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OistodontidaePBDB
- 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 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tricostatus 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tricostatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tricostatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tricostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Acanthodus lineatus4 sites
- Cordylodus angulatus4 sites
- Cordylodus intermedius4 sites
- Drepanoistodus4 sites
- Rossodus manitouensis4 sites
- Rossodus tenuis4 sites
- Striatodontus4 sites
- Utahconus4 sites
- Variabiloconus bassleri4 sites
- Acanthodus uncinatus3 sites
- Laurentoscandodus3 sites
- Rossodus3 sites
- Utahconus utahensis3 sites
- Ventricodus spurius3 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Loxodus2 sites
- Stultodontus2 sites
- Cordylodus1 site
- Cordylodus lindstromi1 site
- Glyptodontus sp.1 site
- Laurentoscandodus triangularis1 site
- Polycostatus1 site
- Westergaardodina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tricostatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tricostatus 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 Tricostatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tricostatus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOistodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ji and Barnes 1994