Paraglans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarditesinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
3 occurrences of Paraglans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paraglans 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.
Paraglans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paraglans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
440 taxa- Acteon2 sites
- Amaea (Acrilla) affinis2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Ancilla2 sites
- Arca biangula2 sites
- Arca minuata2 sites
- Athleta (Neoathleta) labrellus2 sites
- Athleta (Neoathleta) mutatus2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) depauperatus2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Bayania2 sites
- Bayania lactea2 sites
- Bittium2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Chama calcarata2 sites
- Chama fimbriata2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Collonia2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paraglans, 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
3 references- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
- On the age of the Thebes Formation of Gebel duwi, Quseir Area, Egypt1
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
Each of the 3 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 Paraglans
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Paraglans 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 itCarditesinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chavan 1941