Paraseraphs

Paraseraphs

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SeraphsidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 27 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56 Mya37.71 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

28 occurrences of Paraseraphs on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

28 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

13 formations

Llajas — 34.31°N, 118.69°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.76°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.73°WArdath — 32.84°N, 117.23°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBateque — 26.50°N, 112.73°WSables d'Aizy — 49.44°N, 3.51°EScripps — 32.84°N, 117.22°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSables de Bracheux — 49.36°N, 2.15°ESables de Pierrefonds — 49.38°N, 3.00°ESables de Cuise — 49.60°N, 3.38°EMarnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WWhite Limestone — 18.18°N, 76.47°W

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The named rock units Paraseraphs has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraseraphs and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paraseraphs and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

840 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Paraseraphs, 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

13 references

Each of the 28 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Paraseraphs

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paraseraphs 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 itSeraphsidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jung 1974