Variabiloconus transiapeticus
No picture of Variabiloconus transiapeticus 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 Variabiloconus transiapeticus, 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 475.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Variabiloconus transiapeticus 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
5 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
3 formations
- Manitou Limestone Formation3
- Björkåsholmen Formation1
- Goodwin Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Variabiloconus transiapeticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Variabiloconus transiapeticus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Variabiloconus transiapeticus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acanthodus lineatus2 sites
- Acodus similaris2 sites
- Rossodus manitouensis2 sites
- Chosonodina herfurthi1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Drepanoistodus amoenus1 site
- Laurentoscandodus triangularis1 site
- Macerodus1 site
- Paltodus deltifer1 site
- Paroistodus1 site
- Protopanderodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Variabiloconus transiapeticus, 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 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Variabiloconus transiapeticus 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 Variabiloconus transiapeticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Variabiloconus transiapeticus 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 itVariabiloconus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Löfgren et al. 1999