Parapsammichnites
No picture of Parapsammichnites was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Parapsammichnites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parapsammichnites on record. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Urusis Formation · Schwarzrand Group2
- Urusis Formation · Nama Group1
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The named rock units Parapsammichnites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Helminthopsis3 sites
- Bergaueria2 sites
- Ernietta plateauensis2 sites
- Swartpuntia germsi2 sites
- Treptichnidae2 sites
- Archaeonassa1 site
- Aspidella1 site
- Bergauria sp.1 site
- Cloudina hartmannae1 site
- Conichnus1 site
- Erniettomorpha1 site
- Namacalathus hermanastes1 site
- Pteridinium simplex1 site
- Rangeomorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parapsammichnites, 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
2 references- Pushing the boundary: A calibrated Ediacaran-Cambrian stratigraphic record from the Nama Group in northwestern Republic of South Africa2
- Supplemental Data for Ediacaran Diversification Rates1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Parapsammichnites was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Parapsammichnites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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 itIchnofossils through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buatois et al. 2018