Paralbula marylandica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalbulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 39.7 Mya.
7 occurrences of Paralbula marylandica 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous23%
- Paleocene20%
- Eocene57%
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
4 formations
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group3
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Laredo Formation1
- Nanjemoy Formation1
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The named rock units Paralbula marylandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paralbula marylandica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paralbula marylandica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
356 taxa- Palaeogaleus vincenti4 sites
- Rhinoptera4 sites
- Striatolamia macrota4 sites
- Abdounia beaugei3 sites
- Abdounia minutissima3 sites
- Aetomylaeus3 sites
- Albula eppsi3 sites
- Albula oweni3 sites
- Anoxypristis3 sites
- Atractosteus3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi3 sites
- Cylindracanthus3 sites
- Dercetidae3 sites
- Egertonia isodonta3 sites
- Glaucopristis bruxelliensis3 sites
- Hexanchus3 sites
- Myliobatis3 sites
- Nebrius thielensi3 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri3 sites
- Ostraciidae3 sites
- Phyllodus toliapicus3 sites
- Physogaleus secundus3 sites
- Pristis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Paralbula marylandica, 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- New vertebrate microfossils expand the chondrichthyan and actinopterygian fauna of the Maastrichtian-Danian Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey3
- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths2
- Part 4. Actinopterygian Fishes from the Fisher/Sullivan Site1
- Lower vertebrates from an estuarine facies of the Middle Eocene Laredo Formation (Claiborne Group), Webb County, Texas1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Paralbula marylandica 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 Paralbula marylandica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralbula marylandica 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 itParalbula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake 1940