Paracryphaeus
No picture of Paracryphaeus 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 Paracryphaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcastidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
11 occurrences of Paracryphaeus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
11 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Lebanza Formation3
- Bostów Formation1
- Mariposas Formation1
- Nogueras Formation1
- Hunsrueck Slate Formation1
- Armorique Formation1
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The named rock units Paracryphaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracryphaeus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Paracryphaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Acastella3 sites
- Parahomalonotus gervillei3 sites
- Acastella tiro2 sites
- Dunopyge lebanzaensis2 sites
- Pilletina oehlerti2 sites
- Protacanthina2 sites
- Pseudocryphaeus2 sites
- Pseudocryphaeus michelini2 sites
- Warburgella (Rugulites) rugulosa2 sites
- ? Protaxites loganii1 site
- Acanthocrinus1 site
- Acastava1 site
- Acastella hollardi1 site
- Acastella latimarginata1 site
- Acastella rouaulti1 site
- Acastoides1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Arduspirifer arduennensis prolatestriatus1 site
- Astycoryphe1 site
- Atrypida1 site
- Biseptum1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachyspirifer1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paracryphaeus, 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
7 references- Devonian trilobites of the southern Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) with a systematic description of the Asteropyginae3
- Upper SiIurian-Lower Devonian Chitinozoa from the subsurface of southeastern Poland2
- Poland2
- An atypical fauna in the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany1
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe1
- Les trilobites1
- Die Acastavinae und Asteropyginae (Trilobita) Keltiberiens (NE-Spanien)1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Paracryphaeus 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 Paracryphaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracryphaeus 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 itAcastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gandl 1972