Pararaphistoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PararaphistomatinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 66 occurrencesOrdovician — about 60 of 66 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 66 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 5 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 8 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 4 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471.3 Mya438.6 Mya488 Mya432 Mya

66 occurrences of Pararaphistoma on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

66 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

35 formations

Elnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 61.33°N, 8.80°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.17°EElnes — 59.92°N, 10.75°EElnes — 59.95°N, 10.75°ESularp — 55.71°N, 13.32°EHolen — 60.55°N, 14.35°EHolen — 56.53°N, 16.60°EHolen — 57.72°N, 11.97°EHolen — 60.86°N, 15.05°EDzerom — 67.37°N, 104.10°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°ELa Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°EWuting — 41.33°N, 123.72°EWuting — 41.36°N, 123.50°EWuting — 41.33°N, 123.80°EVollen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EVollen — 59.93°N, 10.49°EVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EHuk — 59.65°N, 9.65°EHuk — 59.92°N, 10.78°EEmanuel — 18.33°S, 125.67°EPakri — 59.42°N, 24.75°ESeby Limestone — 60.91°N, 15.02°EArnestad — 60.00°N, 11.00°EFrognerkilen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EChangwu — 30.00°N, 120.00°EShinianpan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 41.00°N, 118.00°EDongzhuang — 35.00°N, 109.00°E"Shihniulan" — 27.80°N, 105.08°ECouches de la Maurerie — 43.00°N, 3.00°EChegitun — 66.57°N, 171.08°EObukhovo — 59.77°N, 30.33°EChasmopskalk — 56.31°N, 16.51°E

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The named rock units Pararaphistoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pararaphistoma and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pararaphistoma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

604 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Pararaphistoma, 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

25 references

Each of the 66 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. 13 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 content0

No picture of Pararaphistoma was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Pararaphistoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vostokova 1955