Paralyttonia tenax
No picture of Paralyttonia tenax 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 Paralyttonia tenax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalyttoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Paralyttonia tenax on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
6 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Paralyttonia tenax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paralyttonia tenax and its relatives
PermianWhere Paralyttonia tenax and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Cleiothyridina tribulosa6 sites
- Cruricella couria6 sites
- Hustedia ratburiensis6 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) cymatilis6 sites
- Posicomta advena6 sites
- Tipispirifer oppilatus6 sites
- Callispirina austrina5 sites
- Dyschrestia spodia5 sites
- Hustedia funaria5 sites
- Spiriferellina yanagidai5 sites
- Streptorhynchus sulculatum5 sites
- Anomaloria glomerosa4 sites
- Derbyia scobina4 sites
- Nematocrania crassa4 sites
- Paraspiriferina gentilis4 sites
- Pontisia exoria4 sites
- Bibatiola costata3 sites
- Comuquia modesta3 sites
- Costachonetina krotowi3 sites
- Demonedys fastigiata3 sites
- Hemiptychina murrita3 sites
- Heteralosia haerens3 sites
- Meekella addicta3 sites
- Neotornquistia tropicalis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paralyttonia tenax, 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 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paralyttonia tenax 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 Paralyttonia tenax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralyttonia tenax 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 itParalyttonia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grant 1976