Paraarchaediscus
No picture of Paraarchaediscus 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 Paraarchaediscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaediscidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Paraarchaediscus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Paraarchaediscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paraarchaediscus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paraarchaediscus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anatolipora1 site
- Anatolipora carbonica1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Endostaffella1 site
- Eotuberitina1 site
- Fasciella1 site
- Girvanella ducii1 site
- Glyptopora1 site
- Howchinia1 site
- Kamaena1 site
- Orthriosiphon1 site
- Porifera1 site
- Productida1 site
- Rugosa indet.1 site
- Scalebrina sp.1 site
- Syringoporidea indet.1 site
- Tetrataxis1 site
- Tuberitina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paraarchaediscus, 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
2 references- Early to mid-Visean shallow water platform buildups, north Co. Dublin, Ireland6
- The cystoporate bryozoan Glyptopora michelinia (Prout, 1860) in the Vise´an–Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Montagne Noire (southern France)1
Each of the 7 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 Paraarchaediscus 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 Paraarchaediscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraarchaediscus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itArchaediscidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orlova 1955