Parvamussium

Parvamussium

Dall, 1871 · CC0 · 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
PropeamussiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Propeamussiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Propeamussiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Propeamussiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Propeamussiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 307 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 307 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 130 of 307 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 17 of 307 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 17 of 307 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 27 of 307 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 57 of 307 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 307 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 307 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 307 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 307 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 307 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 307 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 3 occurrences197–189 Mya — about 13 occurrences189–181 Mya — about 101 occurrences181–172 Mya — about 20 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 10 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 5 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 14 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 6 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 14 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 22 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 12 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 19 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences237 Mya129 ka246 Mya0 Mya

307 occurrences of Parvamussium on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

307 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

68 formations

Barahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WHinoshima — 32.47°N, 130.47°EHinoshima — 32.39°N, 130.40°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WNeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°EUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°Eopoka — 51.13°N, 21.77°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°EAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WTe Wera Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°ECrescent — 47.08°N, 123.83°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.55°WCrescent — 47.32°N, 123.51°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WPuchenque — 35.48°S, 69.92°WPuchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.43°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°EBelmont — 12.50°N, 61.44°WKarekare Siltstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EMaringi — 40.95°S, 175.67°EMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.97°EGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WJuncal — 34.78°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WCalcaire de Eisden — 50.98°N, 5.70°EEl Cholo — 32.28°S, 70.03°WLincolnshire Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WMiddle Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°ETosakamo — 33.50°N, 133.28°E

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The named rock units Parvamussium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 122 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parvamussium and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Parvamussium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,820 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 247 sites for Parvamussium, and this reads 240 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

85 references

Each of the 307 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. 73 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 content1

Picture of Parvamussium

Credit
Dall, 1871
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parvamussium 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. (Sacco 1897)