Paraparchites complanatus
No picture of Paraparchites complanatus 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 Paraparchites complanatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaparchitesPBDB
- 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 most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paraparchites complanatus 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
2 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 Paraparchites complanatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraparchites complanatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Paraparchites complanatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acratia2 sites
- Bairdia geisi2 sites
- Bairdia hassi2 sites
- Bairdia indefinita2 sites
- Acratia permiana1 site
- Actuaria suksuensis1 site
- Bairdia crassa1 site
- Bairdia verwiebei1 site
- Bairdiacypris1 site
- Basslerella acuta1 site
- Basslerella crassa1 site
- Basslerella obesa1 site
- Cyathus ulrichi1 site
- Fellerites1 site
- Kloedenellidae1 site
- Microcheilinella1 site
- Microcheilinella postspinosa1 site
- Podocopida1 site
- Pribylitidae1 site
- Samarella1 site
- Xixionopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paraparchites complanatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paraparchites complanatus 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 Paraparchites complanatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraparchites complanatus 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 itParaparchites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gusseva 1986