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Walliserodus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4842182	https://www.gbif.org/species/4842182
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	34100	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34100

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Belodellidae : Walliserodus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Conodonta : Belodellida : Belodellidae : Walliserodus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
class	Conodonta	Eichenberg 1930
order	Belodellida	Sweet 1988
family	Belodellidae	Khodalevich and Tschernich 1973
genus	Walliserodus	Serpagli 1968

Scientific Name

Walliserodus Serpagli, 1968

Name Published In

Boll. Soc. paleont. Ital. 6

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Walliserodus	genus	belongs to Cornuodontidae	stated with evidence	Stouge, 1984
Walliserodus	genus	belongs to Conodontophorida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Walliserodus	genus	belongs to Conodonta	stated with evidence	Pyle and Barnes, 2003
Walliserodus	genus	belongs to Belodellidae	stated with evidence	Waid and Cramer, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

485 - 470 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

419 - 411 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Conodonta)

Vision

well-developed (based on Conodonta)

Diet

carnivore (based on Conodonta)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Conodonta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Serpagli. 1967. I conodonti dell'Ordoviciano superiore (Ashgilliano) delle Alpi Carniche. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 6:30-111

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acodus bicostatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	441 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Acodus curvatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	207	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	431 Ma Silurian
Walliserodus rallus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	458 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Middle Ordovician
Walliserodus sancticlairi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	113	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	423 Ma Silurian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1967	Walliserodus Serpagli
1984	Walliserodus Stouge p. 59
2002	Walliserodus Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Walliserodus Pyle and Barnes
2017	Walliserodus Waid and Cramer p. 21

References

Serpagli E. (1967) I conodonti dell'Ordoviciano superiore (Ashgilliano) delle Alpi Carniche, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 6, 30-111

Stouge S. S. (1984) Conodonts of the Middle Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Fossils and Strata 16, 1-145

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Pyle L. J., Barnes C. R. (2003) Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, northeastern British Columbia, Canada, Journal of Paleontology 77 1, 146-171

Waid C. B. T., Cramer B. D. (2017) Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) conodonts from the LaPorte City Formation of eastern Iowa, USA (East-Central Iowa Basin) and their implications for global Telychian conodont biostratigraphic correlation, Palaeontologia Electronica 20 2, 1-37

Boll. Soc. paleont. Ital. 6 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

extinct group - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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