Parahystricurus carinatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParahystricurusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Hystricuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parahystricurus carinatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
- Garden City Formation2
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group1
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The named rock units Parahystricurus carinatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parahystricurus carinatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parahystricurus carinatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Amblycranium populus2 sites
- Amblycranium variabile2 sites
- Hystricurus robustus2 sites
- Paenebeltella vultulata2 sites
- Amblycranium1 site
- Amechilus palaora1 site
- Bearriverops borderinnensis1 site
- Hystricurus1 site
- Paraplethopeltis1 site
- Pilekia1 site
- Pseudoclelandia lenisora1 site
- Pseudohystricurus1 site
- Tesselacauda depressa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parahystricurus carinatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas2
- Preliminary Ordovician trilobite stratigraphy of the Eddies Cove West-Port au Choix area, western Newfoundland1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parahystricurus carinatus 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 Parahystricurus carinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parahystricurus carinatus 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 itParahystricurus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1951