Parasphaeronites socialis
No picture of Parasphaeronites socialis 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 Parasphaeronites socialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParasphaeronitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diploporita
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diploporita
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diploporita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Diploporita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Parasphaeronites socialis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Parasphaeronites socialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parasphaeronites socialis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parasphaeronites socialis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Chasmatoporella1 site
- Clathropora1 site
- Enallopora osloensis1 site
- Eridotrypa norvegica1 site
- Hallopora dalmani1 site
- Hallopora solbergiensis1 site
- Metadictya1 site
- Monticulipora1 site
- Neamatopora sublineata1 site
- Orbignyella1 site
- Sceptropora estoniensis1 site
- Stictopora minuta1 site
- Stictopora parvula1 site
- Trematopora borenshultensis1 site
- Trematopora ullernensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Parasphaeronites socialis, 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 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parasphaeronites socialis 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 Parasphaeronites socialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasphaeronites socialis 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 itParasphaeronites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bockelie 1984