Variabiloconus bassleri

No picture of Variabiloconus bassleri was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Variabiloconus bassleri itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Variabiloconus bassleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VariabiloconusPBDB
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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 493.5 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 48 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 42 of 48 occurrencesOrdovician494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 6 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 7 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 5 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 4 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences488.9 Mya461.1 Mya494.2 Mya457.5 Mya

48 occurrences of Variabiloconus bassleri 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

48 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

16 formations

Kechika — 57.70°N, 124.58°WKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WKechika — 58.77°N, 127.55°WTribes Hill — 43.55°N, 73.38°WTribes Hill — 42.98°N, 74.26°WTribes Hill — 42.92°N, 74.42°WStonehenge — 38.86°N, 78.50°WNinmaroo — 22.23°S, 140.25°ENinmaroo — 22.25°S, 140.26°ENinmaroo — 22.10°S, 140.13°ENinmaroo — 22.53°S, 140.35°EBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WBliss Sandstone — 31.79°N, 106.47°WWhitehall — 43.86°N, 73.42°WWhitehall — 44.26°N, 73.42°WLower Setul Limestone — 6.40°N, 99.90°ECopes Bay — 79.30°N, 80.78°WCass Fjord — 76.92°N, 96.17°WDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°EKalladeina — 27.42°S, 139.67°EKalladeina — 27.67°S, 140.42°EKruzhilikha — 67.12°N, 52.07°EHitt Canyon — 32.87°N, 107.18°WAnse du Crapaud — 48.79°N, 64.70°WGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WCutting Dolomite — 43.86°N, 73.40°W

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

Variabiloconus bassleri and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Variabiloconus bassleri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Variabiloconus bassleri, 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

17 references

Each of the 48 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Variabiloconus bassleri was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Variabiloconus bassleri itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Variabiloconus bassleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Variabiloconus bassleri was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itVariabiloconus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Furnish 1938)