Paraprothyris knodi
No picture of Paraprothyris knodi 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 Paraprothyris knodi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaprothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 61 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paraprothyris knodi 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paraprothyris knodi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraprothyris knodi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Paraprothyris knodi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Acharax bainii3 sites
- Modiomorpha2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Sphenotomorpha2 sites
- Cardiomorpha1 site
- Clionolithus priscus1 site
- Cypricardella1 site
- Dignomia lepta1 site
- Encrinaster pontis1 site
- Goniophora1 site
- Grammysioidea1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Leptocoelia1 site
- Leptodomus1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Nuculites1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
- Orthonota bokkeveldensis1 site
- Paranacystis1 site
- Pholadella1 site
- Plectonotus dereimsi1 site
- Plectonotus hapsideus1 site
- Pleurodapis1 site
- Schuchertella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paraprothyris knodi, 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 references- Bivalves (Mollusca) na Formacao Ponta Grossa (Bacia do Parana - Devoniano). Revisao Sistematica3
- A new carpoid echinoderm from the Paraná Devonian1
Each of the 4 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 Paraprothyris knodi 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 Paraprothyris knodi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraprothyris knodi 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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What may have been alongside itParaprothyris through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarke 1913)