Parenteletes cooperi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParenteletesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
27 occurrences of Parenteletes cooperi on record. 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
27 occurrences- Carboniferous85%
- Permian15%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Parenteletes cooperi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Teguliferina boesei16 sites
- Meekella texana11 sites
- Hystriculina sulcata8 sites
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis8 sites
- Reticulatia8 sites
- Scacchinella triangulata7 sites
- Meekella prionota6 sites
- Composita subtilita5 sites
- Juresania5 sites
- Kutorginella uddeni5 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis5 sites
- Linoproductus5 sites
- Neochonetes liratus5 sites
- Neophricadothyris transversa5 sites
- Nudauris splendens5 sites
- Composita strongyle4 sites
- Echinaria moorei4 sites
- Enteletes wolfcampensis4 sites
- Eridmatus marathonensis4 sites
- Gypospirifer anancites4 sites
- Kochiproductus primitivus4 sites
- Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) dunbari4 sites
- Martinia wolfcampensis4 sites
- Neospirifer apothescelus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Parenteletes cooperi, 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- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI18
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda9
Each of the 27 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 Parenteletes cooperi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parenteletes cooperi 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. King 1931