Paraschmidtella

Paraschmidtella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchmidtellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 24 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–455 Mya — about 4 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 6 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457.3 Mya387.95 Mya473 Mya381 Mya

24 occurrences of Paraschmidtella 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

24 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

18 formations

Bohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.60°N, 116.26°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHuangnigang — 28.00°N, 118.00°EYanwashan — 28.00°N, 118.00°EDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°EPyatipaltsevskaya — 72.00°N, 52.00°EKanosh Fm. — 39.48°N, 114.92°WSwan Peak — 42.00°N, 111.47°W

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The named rock units Paraschmidtella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paraschmidtella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Paraschmidtella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Paraschmidtella, 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

9 references

Each of the 24 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

Media content1

Picture of Paraschmidtella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Sidaraviciené 1992