Paraceltites elegans

Paraceltites elegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaceltitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 28 of 28 occurrencesPermian284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 3 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–265 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–264 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266.9 Mya259.857 Mya283.9 Mya253.6 Mya

28 occurrences of Paraceltites elegans on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

28 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

12 formations

Cutoff — 31.30°N, 104.58°WCutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°WCutoff — 31.85°N, 104.80°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.24°N, 103.44°WRoad Canyon — 30.23°N, 103.46°WBone Spring — 31.46°N, 104.87°WBone Spring — 31.82°N, 104.83°WDouling — 27.62°N, 111.65°EDouling — 23.60°N, 112.40°EOlinalá — 17.76°N, 98.72°WBone Spring Limestone — 31.45°N, 104.58°WDingjiashan — 29.33°N, 119.00°EHamrat Duru — 23.41°N, 57.40°EHoso-o — 38.99°N, 141.52°EDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WDangchong — 25.81°N, 113.04°ELas Delicias — 26.42°N, 102.87°W

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The named rock units Paraceltites elegans 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.

Paraceltites elegans and its relatives

Permian

Where Paraceltites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Paraceltites elegans, 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

11 references

Each of the 28 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. 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

Media content1

Picture of Paraceltites elegans

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Paraceltites elegans 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.

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What may have been alongside itParaceltites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1909