Paracalmonia
No picture of Paracalmonia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Paracalmonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalmoniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Calmoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paracalmonia 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paracalmonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracalmonia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Paracalmonia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Australocoelia4 sites
- Australospirifer4 sites
- Derbyina4 sites
- Lingula4 sites
- Metacryphaeus4 sites
- Notiochonetes4 sites
- Nuculites4 sites
- Orbiculoidea4 sites
- Plectonotus4 sites
- Schuchertella4 sites
- Tentaculites4 sites
- Burmeisteria3 sites
- Calmonia3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Encrinaster3 sites
- Mesoconularia3 sites
- Modiolus3 sites
- Modiomorpha3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Solemya3 sites
- Australostrophia2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Cryptonella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paracalmonia, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Paracalmonia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paracalmonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracalmonia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalmoniidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Struve 1958