Paryphella minuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParyphellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Paryphella minuta on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian80%
- Early Triassic20%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paryphella minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paryphella minuta and its relatives
PermianWhere Paryphella minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Paryphella orbicularis4 sites
- Cathaysia chonetoides3 sites
- Cathaysia corculum3 sites
- Cathaysia parvulia3 sites
- Cathaysia plana3 sites
- Cathaysia xiaojiangensis3 sites
- Paryphella transversa3 sites
- Cathaysia spiriferoides2 sites
- Paryphella nasuta2 sites
- Paryphella sparsiplicata2 sites
- Paryphella yangshanensis2 sites
- Cathaysia striata1 site
- Chaohochonetes triangusinuata1 site
- Paracrurithyris pigmaea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paryphella minuta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Quantitative review of the systematic taxonomy, distribution and palaeoenvironmental preferences of Cathaysia and Paryphella (Brachiopoda, Productida)3
- Changhsingian (latest Permian) deep-water brachiopod fauna from South China2
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paryphella minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Paryphella minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paryphella minuta 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 itParyphella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. He and Shi 2014