Paracaprinula syriaca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacaprinulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paracaprinula syriaca on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Paracaprinula syriaca 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.
Paracaprinula syriaca and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Paracaprinula syriaca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Vautrinia3 sites
- Dictyoptychus2 sites
- Hippurites2 sites
- Pseudopolyconites2 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Ambigostrea villei1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni1 site
- Astartemya1 site
- Baluchicardia1 site
- Colveraia1 site
- Dhondtichlamys1 site
- Dubertretia1 site
- Endocostea regularis1 site
- Gervillia solenoidea1 site
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata1 site
- Lapeirousella1 site
- Lapeirousia jouanneti1 site
- Mesocallista1 site
- Nanonavis1 site
- Neilonella1 site
- Nevenulora (Jagonoma)1 site
- Nicaisolopha nicaisei1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Parmicorbula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paracaprinula syriaca, 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- Description of Paracaprinula syriaca Piveteau (Hippuritoidea, Plagioptychidae) and a revised age of ophiolite obduction on the African-Arabian Plate in southeastern Turkey2
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Paracaprinula syriaca 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 Paracaprinula syriaca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracaprinula syriaca 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 itParacaprinula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Piveteau 1939