Parasymbolus reticularis
No picture of Parasymbolus reticularis 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 Parasymbolus reticularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParasymbolusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parasymbolus reticularis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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 Parasymbolus reticularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parasymbolus reticularis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Parasymbolus reticularis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Gladioserratus aptiensis3 sites
- Protosqualus sigei3 sites
- Squatina (Cretascyllium) cranei3 sites
- Synechodus dubrisiensis3 sites
- Hemiscyllium2 sites
- Protosqualus pachyrhiza2 sites
- Pteroscyllium ornatum2 sites
- Squatirhina thiesi2 sites
- Cretascyliorhinus destombesi1 site
- Cretorectolobus gracilis1 site
- Echinorhinidae1 site
- Heterodontus canaliculatus1 site
- Pararhincodon lehmani1 site
- Protolamna1 site
- Protoscyliorhinus1 site
- Pseudospinax heterodon1 site
- Synechodus nitidus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parasymbolus reticularis, 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 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parasymbolus reticularis 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 Parasymbolus reticularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasymbolus reticularis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParasymbolus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Underwood and Mitchell 1999