Parallelodon obsoletus
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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 least 36 million years on record.
The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Parallelodon obsoletus 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
11 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
8 formations
- Muldraugh Formation2
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group2
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group2
- Mattoon Formation1
- Conemaugh Formation1
- Pottsville Formation1
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The named rock units Parallelodon obsoletus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parallelodon obsoletus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Parallelodon obsoletus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
278 taxa- Derbyia crassa7 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis7 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus6 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi6 sites
- Euphemites carbonarius5 sites
- Linoproductus cora5 sites
- Pharkidonotus percarinatus5 sites
- Polidevcia bellistriata5 sites
- Aviculopecten occidentalis4 sites
- Brachycycloceras normale4 sites
- Composita subtilita4 sites
- Cymatospira montfortianus4 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer4 sites
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis4 sites
- Permophorus tropidophorus4 sites
- Soleniscus typicus4 sites
- Strobeus primogenius4 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferous3 sites
- Astartella vera3 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa3 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina3 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus3 sites
- Edmondia nebrascensis3 sites
- Glabrocingulum grayvillense3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Parallelodon obsoletus, 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
8 references- Paleontology and paleoecology of the Crawfordsville fossil site (Upper Osagian: Indiana)2
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri2
- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.2
- Paleoecological notes on the fauna of the Shumway Limestone (Mattoon Formation, Upper Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
- The Portersville Member of the Conemaugh Formation in Muskingum County, Ohio1
- Pottsville fauna of Ohio1
- The fossils of the Conemaugh Formation of Ohio1
- A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania1
Each of the 11 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 obsoletus 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 obsoletus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parallelodon obsoletus 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1871)