Parastrophinella

Parastrophinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParastrophinidaePBDB
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 least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 37 of 63 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 26 of 63 occurrencesSilurian462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 6 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 6 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 5 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 5 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 6 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 6 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya426.7 Mya461.9 Mya421.9 Mya

63 occurrences of Parastrophinella 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

63 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

25 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.38°N, 62.08°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.36°N, 61.98°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.24°WVaureal — 49.68°N, 63.83°WAttawapiskat — 53.20°N, 81.50°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WBecscie — 49.82°N, 64.35°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBecscie — 49.32°N, 61.86°WWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WBronydd — 52.12°N, 3.55°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.25°N, 91.73°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WSpy Wood Grit — 52.67°N, 2.00°WElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WNorderhov — 59.95°N, 10.66°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRestevo Subsuite — 48.58°N, 26.92°EJiaBoSai — 47.00°N, 89.00°ERosan — 48.00°N, 4.00°WPorto de Santa Anna — 40.00°N, 8.00°WClarita — 34.30°N, 96.80°WKorotkinskaya — 75.25°N, 99.90°EHagley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WBoda Limestone — 61.02°N, 15.22°ECraighead — 55.25°N, 4.85°WFuruberget — 60.36°N, 10.42°ETangtou — 32.00°N, 119.00°EVarbola — 58.69°N, 25.63°E

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The named rock units Parastrophinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parastrophinella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Parastrophinella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

608 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Parastrophinella, 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

30 references

Each of the 63 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. 18 further references are 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 Parastrophinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parastrophinella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and Cooper 1931