Parkesolithus

No picture of Parkesolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Parkesolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrinucleidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trinucleidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453.5 Mya448.5 Mya

11 occurrences of Parkesolithus 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

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

6 formations

Malongulli — 33.55°S, 148.85°EMalongulli — 34.00°S, 148.00°EMalongulli — 33.00°S, 148.00°EQuondong Limestone — 33.92°S, 148.20°EQuondong Limestone — 33.32°S, 148.82°ECliefden Caves Limestone — 33.54°S, 148.86°EGoonumbla Volcanics — 33.04°S, 147.93°EVandon Limestone — 33.63°S, 148.78°EBillabong Creek Limestone — 33.33°S, 147.97°E

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The named rock units Parkesolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parkesolithus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Parkesolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Parkesolithus, 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

7 references

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. 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 content0

No picture of Parkesolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Parkesolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Parkesolithus 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 itTrinucleidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell and Durham 1970