Paratarrasius hibbardi

Oilshale · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParatarrasiusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Paratarrasius hibbardi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group8
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The named rock units Paratarrasius hibbardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paratarrasius hibbardi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paratarrasius hibbardi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Fubarichthyiformes7 sites
- Wendyichthys dicksoni7 sites
- Aesopichthys erinaceus6 sites
- Harpagofututor volsellorhinus5 sites
- Kalops monophrys5 sites
- Beagiascus pulcherrimus4 sites
- Discoserra pectinodon4 sites
- Falcatus falcatus4 sites
- Archisymplectes rhothon3 sites
- Cyranorhis bergeraci3 sites
- Debeerius ellefseni3 sites
- Lineagruan judithi3 sites
- Lineagruan snowyi3 sites
- Papilionichthys stahlae3 sites
- Animalia2 sites
- Apholidotus ossuous2 sites
- Belantsea montana2 sites
- Boeotiaspis longispinus2 sites
- Carbosesostris megaliphagon2 sites
- Caridosuctor populosum2 sites
- Damocles serratus2 sites
- Hadronector donbairdi2 sites
- Kalops2 sites
- Kalops diophrys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paratarrasius hibbardi, 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- A new actinopterygian fish from the Mississippian Bear Gulch limestone of Montana7
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Paratarrasius hibbardi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Oilshale
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Paratarrasius hibbardi 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 itParatarrasius through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund and Melton 1982