Paraglauconia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CassiopidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 106.3 Mya.
12 occurrences of Paraglauconia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Riachuelo Formation2
- Urgoniana Formation2
- Carhuaz Formation1
- Santa Formation1
- Villaro Formation1
- Mal Paso Formation1
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The named rock units Paraglauconia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paraglauconia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Paraglauconia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Astarte2 sites
- Bengtsonigonia britoi2 sites
- Neithea2 sites
- Neoptyxis2 sites
- Ostreida2 sites
- Spinicharixa pitti2 sites
- Actinastrea1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cercomya1 site
- Cerithium riachuelanum lyrae1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Confusiscala1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Crassatellites maroimensis1 site
- Cypridea1 site
- Cyrena1 site
- Cytheropteron1 site
- Darwinula1 site
- Echinobathra1 site
- Eustoma1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Ezkutuberezi carmeni1 site
- Filosina1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Paraglauconia, 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
8 references- Anditrigonia britoi n.sp. (Bivalvia) do Eo-Albiano de Sergipe, Brasil2
- Gasteropodos hauterivienses de Castellfort (Castellon)2
- Charixa Lang and Spinicharixa gen. nov., cheilostome bryozoans from the Lower Cretaceous2
- Cretaceous system in northern Peru2
- A new early Cretaceous clupeomorph fish from the Arratia Valley, Basque Country, Spain1
- Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece1
- Toucasia hancockensis (Hippuritacea-Requienidae) in southwestern Mexico1
- Maury, 19361
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. 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 Paraglauconia
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Paraglauconia 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 itCassiopidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steinmann 1929