Pararaconus staitorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PararaconusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pararaconus staitorum on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Pararaconus staitorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pararaconus staitorum and its relatives
CambrianWhere Pararaconus staitorum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Pelagiella madianensis3 sites
- Aetholicopalla adnata2 sites
- Anabarella australis2 sites
- Conotheca australiensis2 sites
- Dailyatia ajax2 sites
- Davidonia rostrata2 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum2 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata2 sites
- Parkula bounites2 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari2 sites
- Albrunnicola bengtsoni1 site
- Allonnia tetrahallis1 site
- Allonnia tripodophora1 site
- Anabarites trymatus1 site
- Apistoconcha apheles1 site
- Archiasterella1 site
- Aroonia seposita1 site
- Askepasma toddense1 site
- Australohalkieria parva1 site
- Beshtashella tortilis1 site
- Byronia1 site
- Camenella reticulosa1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Chancelloria racemifundis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pararaconus staitorum, 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
3 references- Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia1
- Early Cambrian molluscs from glacial erratics of King George Island, West Antarctica1
- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pararaconus staitorum 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 Pararaconus staitorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pararaconus staitorum was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPararaconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bengtson et al. 1990