Paraparchites

Paraparchites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaparchitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 257 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 257 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 257 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 133 of 257 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 110 of 257 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 257 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–445 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences445–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences392–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 3 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences362–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–339 Mya — about 10 occurrences339–331 Mya — about 80 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 18 occurrences324–316 Mya — about 10 occurrences316–308 Mya — about 5 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 4 occurrences301–293 Mya — about 8 occurrences293–286 Mya — about 9 occurrences286–278 Mya — about 22 occurrences278–270 Mya — about 14 occurrences270–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 51 occurrences458.2 Mya254.14 Mya476 Mya248 Mya

257 occurrences of Paraparchites 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

257 occurrences

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

59 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WChangxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EChangxing — 31.79°N, 104.58°EChangxing — 31.59°N, 104.32°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EJohns Valley — 34.59°N, 95.89°WJohns Valley — 34.75°N, 95.75°WJohns Valley — 34.70°N, 95.59°WJohns Valley — 34.73°N, 95.35°WJohns Valley — 34.79°N, 95.02°WJohns Valley — 34.75°N, 94.63°WChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.01°WFayetteville — 36.19°N, 94.07°WNesen — 36.22°N, 51.35°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EKhuff — 26.00°N, 44.05°EChuanshan — 26.42°N, 117.66°EChuanshan — 29.90°N, 119.55°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WQiziqiao — 27.78°N, 111.48°EDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WWreford — 38.87°N, 96.15°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WKhivach — 62.80°N, 159.60°EGrenzland — 46.58°N, 13.18°EGrenzland — 46.85°N, 13.19°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°EWujiaping — 32.31°N, 105.46°EDeer Creek — 38.97°N, 95.06°WDeer Creek — 39.22°N, 95.32°WNam Maholan — 17.11°N, 101.88°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°EWarsaw Limestone — 38.44°N, 90.20°W

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The named rock units Paraparchites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraparchites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paraparchites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,502 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 225 sites for Paraparchites, 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

61 references

Each of the 257 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. 49 further references are not listed. 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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Specimen
Paraparchites mazonensis · TMNH:00715

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Bassler 1906