Microparaparchites
No picture of Microparaparchites 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 Microparaparchites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PodocopidaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Microparaparchites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Microparaparchites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microparaparchites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Microparaparchites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Amphissites1 site
- Bairdia oklahomaensis1 site
- Cavellina fittsi1 site
- Cavusgnathus1 site
- Fabalicypris hoxbarensis1 site
- Geisina1 site
- Glyptopleura coryelli1 site
- Healdia1 site
- Healdia unispinosa1 site
- Hollinella1 site
- Idiognathodus1 site
- Idiognathoides1 site
- Kirkbya clarocarinata1 site
- Monoceratina ardmorensis1 site
- Polytylites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Microparaparchites, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Microparaparchites 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 Microparaparchites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microparaparchites 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 itPodocopida through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.