Pararaphistoma disciformis
No picture of Pararaphistoma disciformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pararaphistoma disciformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PararaphistomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pararaphistoma disciformis 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group1
- Stinchar Formation1
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The named rock units Pararaphistoma disciformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pararaphistoma disciformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pararaphistoma disciformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Groomodiscus buccinoideum2 sites
- Alaskadiscus hunteri1 site
- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Cyrtolites craigensis1 site
- Eccyliomphalus macromphalus1 site
- Ectomaria prisca1 site
- Eotomaria subplana1 site
- Kokenospira maccullochi1 site
- Liospira aequalis1 site
- Liospira striatula1 site
- Lophospira milleri1 site
- Loxobucania evoluta1 site
- Maclurina sedgwicki1 site
- Mestoronema scotica1 site
- Pachystrophia balclatchiensis1 site
- Plethospira caledoniensis1 site
- Ptychopleurella lapworthi1 site
- Sinuites discoides1 site
- Sinuites separatus1 site
- Strangulites maccallumi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pararaphistoma disciformis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pararaphistoma disciformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pararaphistoma disciformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pararaphistoma disciformis 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 itPararaphistoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Longstaff 1924)