Paracyclas elliptica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParacyclasPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Lucinoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 385.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–376 Mya — about 1 occurrence376–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–374 Mya — about 1 occurrence374–373 Mya — about 1 occurrence373–372 Mya — about 1 occurrence372–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385.9 Mya382.31 Mya394 Mya371.6 Mya

18 occurrences of Paracyclas elliptica 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

18 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

6 formations

Shell Rock — 42.95°N, 92.83°WShell Rock — 43.33°N, 92.82°WShell Rock — 43.83°N, 92.93°WShell Rock — 43.15°N, 93.00°WShell Rock — 43.14°N, 93.00°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.97°WLime Creek — 43.83°N, 92.93°WDawson Bay — 51.02°N, 98.68°WDawson Bay — 53.00°N, 101.00°WManitoba Limestone — 51.65°N, 99.82°WQuttah — 27.50°N, 13.50°ESnyder Creek Shale — 38.83°N, 91.82°W

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The named rock units Paracyclas elliptica 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.

Paracyclas elliptica and its relatives

Devonian

Where Paracyclas elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Paracyclas elliptica, 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

4 references

Each of the 18 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 Paracyclas elliptica 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 Paracyclas elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paracyclas elliptica 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 itParacyclas through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1843)