Paraparchitidae

Paraparchitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaparchitoideaPBDB
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 206 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 349 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 349 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 15 of 349 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 152 of 349 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 168 of 349 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 349 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 349 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–445 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences445–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences392–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–376 Mya — about 4 occurrences376–369 Mya — about 6 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–354 Mya — about 7 occurrences354–346 Mya — about 8 occurrences346–338 Mya — about 12 occurrences338–331 Mya — about 88 occurrences331–323 Mya — about 11 occurrences323–315 Mya — about 12 occurrences315–308 Mya — about 6 occurrences308–300 Mya — about 7 occurrences300–292 Mya — about 19 occurrences292–285 Mya — about 20 occurrences285–277 Mya — about 26 occurrences277–270 Mya — about 15 occurrences270–262 Mya — about 12 occurrences262–254 Mya — about 16 occurrences254–247 Mya — about 68 occurrences458.2 Mya251.902 Mya476 Mya247 Mya

349 occurrences of Paraparchitidae 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

349 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

86 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°EHolmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°EChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WJohns 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°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EChandalaz — 43.43°N, 132.43°EChandalaz — 43.20°N, 132.11°ENagyvisnyo — 48.10°N, 20.47°ENagyvisnyo — 48.14°N, 20.43°EKhuff — 26.00°N, 44.05°EChuanshan — 26.42°N, 117.66°EChuanshan — 29.90°N, 119.55°ETak Fa — 15.34°N, 100.60°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EEdzhid — 65.07°N, 56.69°EFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.01°WFayetteville — 36.19°N, 94.07°WE-Lert — 17.31°N, 101.73°ENesen — 36.22°N, 51.35°ELindero — 35.00°S, 68.00°WQiziqiao — 27.78°N, 111.48°EGrenzland — 46.58°N, 13.18°EGrenzland — 46.85°N, 13.19°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°EWujiaping — 32.31°N, 105.46°ENam Maholan — 17.11°N, 101.88°EKowala — 50.92°N, 20.58°E

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The named rock units Paraparchitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraparchitidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Paraparchitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,557 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 300 sites for Paraparchitidae, and this reads 240 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

83 references

Each of the 349 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. 71 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

Media content1

Picture of Paraparchitidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Paraparchitidae 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 1959