Paraphyllites tabuloides

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaphyllitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Paraphyllites tabuloides on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
13 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Paraphyllites tabuloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paraphyllites tabuloides and its relatives
DevonianWhere Paraphyllites tabuloides and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Anarcestes simulans6 sites
- Amoenophyllites amoenus5 sites
- Anarcestes plebeius5 sites
- Gyroceratites gracilis5 sites
- Sellanarcestes perfectus4 sites
- Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps3 sites
- Crispoceras crispum3 sites
- Mimagoniatites bohemicus3 sites
- Nowakia3 sites
- Polygnathus3 sites
- Polygnathus serotinus3 sites
- Praewerneroceras suchomastense3 sites
- Agoniatites (Agoniatites)2 sites
- Agoniatites costulatus2 sites
- Anarcestes applanatus2 sites
- Anarcestes densistriatus2 sites
- Anarcestes lateseptatus2 sites
- Anarcestes latissimus2 sites
- Auloporididae indet.2 sites
- Cingulodermis2 sites
- Clorinda2 sites
- Crotalocephalus2 sites
- Cyphaspides2 sites
- Foordites veniens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Paraphyllites tabuloides, 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
2 referencesEach of the 13 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. 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 Paraphyllites tabuloides
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itParaphyllites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1865)