Parahelenites

No picture of Parahelenites 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 Parahelenites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinoceridaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 425 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesSilurian458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449.6 Mya426.7 Mya457.9 Mya424.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Parahelenites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

5 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

5 formations

Ningqiang — 32.83°N, 106.29°EUpper Wengxiang — 26.50°N, 108.00°EXiushan — 28.55°N, 108.85°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.56°S, 146.46°EGuandi — 28.00°N, 106.00°E

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The named rock units Parahelenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Parahelenites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Parahelenites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Parahelenites, 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 5 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

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No picture of Parahelenites 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 Parahelenites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Parahelenites 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 itActinocerida through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen and Liu 1974