Parallelodon

Parallelodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParallelodontinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 395 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 956 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 956 occurrencesDevonian — about 46 of 956 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 143 of 956 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 202 of 956 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 956 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 50 of 956 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 97 of 956 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 253 of 956 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 104 of 956 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 32 of 956 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 956 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 956 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 956 occurrences485–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences428–414 Mya — about 3 occurrences414–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–386 Mya — about 6 occurrences386–371 Mya — about 7 occurrences371–357 Mya — about 31 occurrences357–343 Mya — about 25 occurrences343–329 Mya — about 36 occurrences329–314 Mya — about 29 occurrences314–300 Mya — about 46 occurrences300–286 Mya — about 36 occurrences286–272 Mya — about 25 occurrences272–257 Mya — about 77 occurrences257–243 Mya — about 95 occurrences243–229 Mya — about 81 occurrences229–215 Mya — about 19 occurrences215–200 Mya — about 38 occurrences200–186 Mya — about 149 occurrences186–172 Mya — about 97 occurrences172–158 Mya — about 110 occurrences158–143 Mya — about 22 occurrences143–129 Mya — about 7 occurrences129–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–101 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences101–86 Mya — about 7 occurrences86–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences468 Mya72.2 Mya485 Mya58 Mya

956 occurrences of Parallelodon on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

956 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

243 formations

Ford — 54.88°N, 1.38°WFord — 54.81°N, 1.32°WFord — 54.83°N, 1.37°WFord — 54.94°N, 1.47°WFord — 54.73°N, 1.31°WCassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EFlat Top — 24.85°S, 150.12°EFlat Top — 24.45°S, 150.18°EFlat Top — 24.76°S, 150.13°EBedford Shale — 41.59°N, 81.57°WBedford Shale — 41.38°N, 81.56°WBedford Shale — 41.50°N, 81.70°WPiedra Pintada — 40.12°S, 70.27°WPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°WPiedra Pintada — 39.97°S, 70.47°WPiedra Pintada — 40.05°S, 70.35°WPiedra Pintada — 40.15°S, 70.30°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°EBaird — 40.75°N, 122.30°WBaird — 40.94°N, 122.27°WBaird — 40.95°N, 122.27°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WCalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.31°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.23°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°ELadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WCalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EPuchenque — 35.10°S, 70.12°WPuchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WPuchenque — 35.48°S, 69.92°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WNayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.47°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°E

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The named rock units Parallelodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 219 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 226 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parallelodon and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Parallelodon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,884 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 786 sites for Parallelodon, and this reads 240 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

263 references

Each of the 956 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. 251 further references are not listed. 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 Parallelodon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itParallelodontinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Worthen 1866