Pyrina parryi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PyrinaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 9.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 110.1 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pyrina parryi on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Denison Formation · Washita Group1
- Comanche Peak Limestone Formation · Fredericksburg Group1
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The named rock units Pyrina parryi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyrina parryi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Pyrina parryi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Camptonectes virgatus1 site
- Cinulia1 site
- Cymatoceras1 site
- Epiaster whitei1 site
- Exogyra americana1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Holaster simplex1 site
- Lamna1 site
- Leptarbacia argutus1 site
- Lima1 site
- Lima wacoensis1 site
- Macraster1 site
- Neithea wrighti1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Neritina1 site
- Ophiura texana1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Ostrea (Alectryonia)1 site
- Ostrea subovata1 site
- Pachymya austinensis1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus1 site
- Pervinquieria1 site
- Pholadomya shattucki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pyrina parryi, 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- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
- The Mesozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 2 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
Media content1
Picture of Pyrina parryi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pyrina parryi 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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What may have been alongside itPyrina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1857