Paracardium

No picture of Paracardium 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 Paracardium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AntipleuridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya382.31 Mya428 Mya371 Mya

7 occurrences of Paracardium on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 formations

Fluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°ETiounkeline Shale — 26.10°N, 3.48°ESherburne — 42.63°N, 76.70°WPridoli — 50.02°N, 14.38°E

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The named rock units Paracardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paracardium and its relatives

Silurian

Where Paracardium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paracardium, 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 content0

No picture of Paracardium 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 Paracardium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paracardium 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.

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What may have been alongside itAntipleuridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1881