Paracypellia prolifera

Paracypellia prolifera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParacypelliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157.9 Mya152.21 Mya159.5 Mya148.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Paracypellia prolifera on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

12 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

3 formations

Zawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°E

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The named rock units Paracypellia prolifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paracypellia prolifera and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Paracypellia prolifera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Paracypellia prolifera, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Paracypellia prolifera

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Paracypellia prolifera 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 itParacypellia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zittel 1878)