Paffrathopsis lirata
No picture of Paffrathopsis lirata 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 Paffrathopsis lirata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaffrathopsisPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paffrathopsis lirata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Paffrathopsis lirata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paffrathopsis lirata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Paffrathopsis lirata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Bellerophon lineatus4 sites
- Devonorhineoderma lonsdalei4 sites
- Hessonia piligera4 sites
- Plagiothyra purpurea4 sites
- Agnesia nodulosa3 sites
- Clathronema reticulata3 sites
- Delphinuella subarmata3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma beaumonti3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma orbignyana3 sites
- Murchisonia sandbergeri3 sites
- Odontomaria semiplicata3 sites
- Philoxene laevis3 sites
- Plagiothyra tubericosta3 sites
- Serpulospira serpula3 sites
- Straparollus planus3 sites
- Straparollus turritus3 sites
- Astralites sublimbatus2 sites
- Bicarina euomphalus2 sites
- Catantostoma clathratum2 sites
- Champernownia champernowni2 sites
- Champernownia multispira2 sites
- Champernownia wagneri2 sites
- Devonocerithioides gracilis2 sites
- Devonoconica undullaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paffrathopsis lirata, 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- Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)3
- Gastropoda from the Givetian “Massenkalk” of Schwelm and Hohenlimburg (Saureland, Rheinsiches Schiefergebirge, Germany)1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Paffrathopsis lirata 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 Paffrathopsis lirata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paffrathopsis lirata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPaffrathopsis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger 1842)