Paraconularia
Searched as Paraconularia planicostata. The Paleobiology Database treats Paraconularia as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConulariidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Conulariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conulariidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Conulariidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Conulariidae
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Paraconularia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
5 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Murphy Road Formation · Windsor Group3
- Miller Creek and Wentworth Station Formation · Windsor Group1
- Macumber and White Quarry Formation · Windsor Group1
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The named rock units Paraconularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraconularia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paraconularia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,272 taxa- Crinoidea25 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis17 sites
- Glabrocingulum16 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense16 sites
- Composita subtilita15 sites
- Phestia15 sites
- Astartella concentrica14 sites
- Straparollus14 sites
- Worthenia tabulata14 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis13 sites
- Lophophyllidium13 sites
- Meekospira13 sites
- Ammonoidea indet.12 sites
- Antiquatonia12 sites
- Chonetinella12 sites
- Euphemites12 sites
- Pharkidonotus percarinatus12 sites
- Domatoceras11 sites
- Glaphyrites modestus11 sites
- Gonioloboceras goniolobus11 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi11 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis11 sites
- Schistoceras missouriense11 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Paraconularia, 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 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Paraconularia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itConulariidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sinclair 1940