Parasepsagon
Searched as Parasepsagon asymmetricus praetetracanthus. The Paleobiology Database treats Parasepsagon as the accepted name.
No picture of Parasepsagon 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 Parasepsagon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HindeosphaeridaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parasepsagon on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Parasepsagon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parasepsagon and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Parasepsagon and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Eptingium manfredi18 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera japonica13 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera12 sites
- Triassocampe12 sites
- Triassocampe deweveri12 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum10 sites
- Hindeosphaera spinulosa10 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera compacta10 sites
- Paroertlispongus rarispinosus9 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera longispinosa9 sites
- Triassocampe myterocorys9 sites
- Paroertlispongus8 sites
- Paroertlispongus multispinosus8 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla8 sites
- Tiborella florida8 sites
- Triassocampe scalaris8 sites
- Archaeocenosphaera7 sites
- Paurinella aequispinosa7 sites
- Paurinella curvata7 sites
- Staurolonche granulosum7 sites
- Striatotriassocampe nodosoannulata7 sites
- Triassocampe coronata7 sites
- Eptingium nakasekoi6 sites
- Hozmadia6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Parasepsagon, 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
2 references- Middle Triassic radiolarian fauna from southwest Yunnan, China1
- Late Anisian-Early Ladinian radiolarians and conodonts from Smarna Gora near Ljubljana, Slovenia1
Each 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. 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 Parasepsagon 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 Parasepsagon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasepsagon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHindeosphaeridae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica et al. 1980