Parallelodon tectum
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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 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Parallelodon tectum on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrences- Late 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 tectum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parallelodon tectum and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Parallelodon tectum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Antiquilima hians3 sites
- Cassianella3 sites
- Indopecten serraticosta3 sites
- Umbrostrea emamii3 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys)2 sites
- Cosmetodon2 sites
- Gruenewaldia iranica2 sites
- Mesosaccella2 sites
- Nuculana (Nuculana) naibandensis2 sites
- Palaeocardita iranica2 sites
- Palaeonucula2 sites
- Persia monstrosa2 sites
- Plagiostoma subvaloniense2 sites
- Praeconia matura2 sites
- Propeamussium (Parvamussium)2 sites
- Pseudoplacunopsis2 sites
- Trigonia (Primatrigonia) zlambachiensis2 sites
- Trigonucula goniocostata2 sites
- Unionites griesbachi2 sites
- Antiquicorbula concentrica1 site
- Coelopis (Coelopis) aurea1 site
- Costatoria1 site
- Fimbriinae1 site
- Gervillaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Parallelodon tectum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 tectum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 tectum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parallelodon tectum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParallelodon through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hautmann 2001