Parachaetes sp.
No picture of Parachaetes sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Parachaetes sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
3 occurrences of Parachaetes sp. 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
3 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 Parachaetes sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parachaetes sp. and its relatives
DevonianWhere Parachaetes sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Actinoconchus2 sites
- Atylephorus tornacensis2 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Crurithysis aff. lunievensis2 sites
- Dielasma2 sites
- Guilinospirifer2 sites
- Martinothyris2 sites
- Mucrospirifer2 sites
- Neopolygnathus communis2 sites
- Palmatolepis2 sites
- Polygnathus2 sites
- Protognathodus kockeli2 sites
- Protognathodus meischneri2 sites
- Schizophoria resupinata2 sites
- Siphonodella2 sites
- Yanguania2 sites
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parachaetes sp., 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- Devonian-Carboniferous Carbonates around Guilin, South China: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology2
- Depositional History and Paleoecology of an Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Bioherm, Mount Irish, Nevada1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parachaetes sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Parachaetes sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Parachaetes sp. 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.