Parkinsonia

Parkinsonia is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Parkinsoniidae.

A picture published with the record for Parkinsonia.

Kaldari · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
ParkinsoniinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 163 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 163 of 163 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 163 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 13 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 14 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 14 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 14 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 17 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 54 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 6 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 6 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 6 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 6 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 6 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 6 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175.2 Mya161 Mya

163 occurrences of Parkinsonia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

163 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

16 formations

Tsudakhar — 42.26°N, 47.53°ETsudakhar — 42.47°N, 46.65°ETsudakhar — 42.56°N, 46.34°ETsudakhar — 42.65°N, 46.93°ETsudakhar — 42.58°N, 46.15°ETsudakhar — 42.38°N, 46.96°ETsudakhar — 42.16°N, 47.63°ETsudakhar — 42.61°N, 46.99°ETsudakhar — 42.45°N, 46.85°ETsudakhar — 42.34°N, 47.16°ETsudakhar — 42.49°N, 46.74°ETsudakhar — 42.81°N, 45.63°ETsudakhar — 42.69°N, 46.50°ETsudakhar — 42.24°N, 47.52°EDjangura — 43.85°N, 41.14°EDjangura — 43.97°N, 41.76°EDjangura — 43.85°N, 41.75°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EDjangura — 43.91°N, 41.81°EParkinsonian-Oolith — 48.86°N, 10.34°EParkinsonian-Oolith — 48.86°N, 10.35°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EDalichai — 37.09°N, 56.74°EDalichai — 37.15°N, 57.15°EDalichai — 36.39°N, 54.29°ETasharvat — 39.72°N, 54.44°ETasharvat — 39.75°N, 54.37°EMeulam — 39.92°N, 54.12°EMeulam — 39.94°N, 54.15°ETiglukpuk — 68.37°N, 151.83°WBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EChipping Norton Limestone — 51.95°N, 1.75°WSarydinrmen — 44.27°N, 51.85°EKopchugay — 39.75°N, 54.37°EOgrydag — 40.83°N, 55.44°ESarydiirmen — 44.34°N, 51.64°EDegibadam — 37.62°N, 66.62°EClypeus Grit — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Parkinsonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parkinsonia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Parkinsonia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Parkinsonia, 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

18 references

Each of the 163 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. 6 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 content2

Picture of Parkinsonia

Credit
Kaldari
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This entry was cached before the site began recording what Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource did, so a search that failed cannot be told from one that found nothing.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Bayle