Parallelodon minima
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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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.4 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parallelodon minima on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Parallelodon minima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parallelodon minima and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Parallelodon minima and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Edmondia2 sites
- Schizodus chesterensis2 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi1 site
- Archimedes1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Aviculopecten batesvillensis1 site
- Aviculopecten crenistriatus1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Bucanopsis1 site
- Buxtonia1 site
- Caneyella richardsoni1 site
- Cliothyridina sublamellosa1 site
- Coledium explanatum1 site
- Composita1 site
- Composita laevis1 site
- Composita trinuclea1 site
- Conetes oklahomensis1 site
- Cycloceras1 site
- Cypricardella1 site
- Cystodictya1 site
- Deltopecten1 site
- Deltopecten tahlequahensis1 site
- Dictyoclostus inflatus1 site
- Dielasma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parallelodon minima, 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
2 references- Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia1
- The Paradise Formation and its fauna1
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. 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 Parallelodon minima was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Parallelodon minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parallelodon minima was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Worthen 1884)