Parabarrandia

Parabarrandia is a genus of trilobite of the Asaphida order. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period.

Parabarrandia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
NileidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Nileidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463.3 Mya461 Mya469.9 Mya457.7 Mya

7 occurrences of Parabarrandia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

7 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

5 formations

Sarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WValongo — 41.00°N, 8.00°WPizarras Guindo — 38.62°N, 3.68°WTaddrist — 30.64°N, 5.11°W

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The named rock units Parabarrandia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Parabarrandia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Parabarrandia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Parabarrandia, 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

7 references

Each of the 7 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. 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 Parabarrandia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNileidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Prantl and Pribyl 1949