Parallelodon bittneri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParallelodonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodon
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodon
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodon
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parallelodon bittneri on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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 Parallelodon bittneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parallelodon bittneri and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Parallelodon bittneri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Lima costata2 sites
- Neoschizodus ovatus2 sites
- Posidonia2 sites
- Rhynchonella2 sites
- Spiriferina2 sites
- Beyrichites1 site
- Bourguetia1 site
- Ceratitina1 site
- Cuccoceras cuccense1 site
- Daonella1 site
- Eucyclus1 site
- Gervillia1 site
- Palaeonucula subobliqua1 site
- Paleonucula subobliqua1 site
- Ptychomphalus1 site
- Trigonia tabacoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parallelodon bittneri, 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- Moscoso, R.; Mpodozis, C.; Nasi, C.; Ribba, L.; Arévalo, C. (compilador) 2010. Geología de la Hoja El Tránsito, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Preliminar 7: 3 anexos, 1 mapa escala 1:250.000. Santiago1
- Eine marine Faunula aus der mittleren Trias von Chile [A marine fauna from the Middle Triassic of Chile]1
Each of the 2 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 Parallelodon bittneri 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 Parallelodon bittneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parallelodon bittneri 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 itParallelodon through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barthel 1958