Parabellefontia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 481.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
8 occurrences of Parabellefontia 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
8 occurrences- Cambrian5%
- Ordovician95%
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
4 formations
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group4
- Survey Peak Formation2
- Goodwin Formation1
- House Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Parabellefontia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parabellefontia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parabellefontia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Hystricurus oculilunatus3 sites
- Bassleroceras2 sites
- Bellefontia2 sites
- Bolbocephalus seelyi2 sites
- Diaphelasma2 sites
- Hyperbolochilus2 sites
- Hystricurus2 sites
- Pachycranium2 sites
- Parahystricurus2 sites
- Xenostegium franklinense2 sites
- Bellefontia chamberlaini1 site
- Benthamaspis conica1 site
- Benthamaspis mediacrista1 site
- Bolbocephalus convexus1 site
- Clelandia utahensis1 site
- Ecculiomphalus1 site
- Genalaticurus genalatus1 site
- Grinnelaspis sp.1 site
- Hillyardina1 site
- Hystricurus crassilimbatus1 site
- Isoteloides peri1 site
- Jeffersonia1 site
- Jeffersonia timon1 site
- Lecanospira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Parabellefontia, 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
6 references- Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta)2
- Fossils of Northwestern Newfoundland and Southeastern Labrador: Conodonts and Trilobites2
- Preliminary Ordovician trilobite stratigraphy of the Eddies Cove West-Port au Choix area, western Newfoundland1
- Further developments in western Newfoundland Cambro-Ordovician biostratigraphy1
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California1
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Parabellefontia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Parabellefontia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hintze 1953