Parakorilithes
No picture of Parakorilithes was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Parakorilithes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Parakorilithes on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Parakorilithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parakorilithes and its relatives
CambrianWhere Parakorilithes and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Actinoites universalis1 site
- Archiasterella1 site
- Archiasterella pentactina1 site
- Cupitheca1 site
- Henaniodus magicus1 site
- Igorella1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Pelagiella adunca1 site
- Pojetaia runnegari1 site
- Securiconus emeiensis1 site
- Securiconus vulgaris1 site
- Stenotheca drepanoida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Parakorilithes, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Parakorilithes was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Parakorilithes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parakorilithes 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 itHyolithida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.