Parastrophina plena
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParastrophinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Parastrophina plena 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
11 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
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The named rock units Parastrophina plena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parastrophina plena and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parastrophina plena and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Christiania sulcata2 sites
- Limbimurina2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) ampla2 sites
- Acrosaccus1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Anoptambonites subcarinata1 site
- Austinella1 site
- Bandaleta plana1 site
- Bellimurina1 site
- Christiania skolia1 site
- Craspedelia1 site
- Craspedelia roomusoksi1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Dolerorthis pristina1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eokosovopeltis romanovskii1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Kellerella ditissima1 site
- Kellerella misiusi1 site
- Nikolaispira1 site
- Nikolaispira rasilis1 site
- Parastrophina portentosa1 site
- Pseudolingula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parastrophina plena, 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- Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics10
- Strophomenid and triplesiid brachiopods from an Upper Ordovician carbonate mound in central Kazakhstan1
Each of the 11 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
Media content1
Picture of Parastrophina plena
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parastrophina plena 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 itParastrophina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sapelnikov and Rukavishnikova 1975