Parajuresania

Wagner, Steve · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JuresaniiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 46 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.9 Mya.
248 occurrences of Parajuresania 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
248 occurrences- Carboniferous70%
- Permian30%
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
51 formations
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group47
- Foraker Limestome Formation17
- Foraker Limestone Formation · Council Grove Group15
- Winchell Formation · Canyon Group11
- Falls City Limestone Formation · Admire Group9
- Krebs Formation · Cherokee Group9
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The named rock units Parajuresania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parajuresania and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Parajuresania and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
857 taxa- Composita subtilita112 sites
- Crinoidea76 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari72 sites
- Derbyia70 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer68 sites
- Hustedia mormoni56 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa53 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis51 sites
- Derbyia crassa50 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus43 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa42 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense42 sites
- Astartella concentrica40 sites
- Echinoidea40 sites
- Linipalus magnispinus38 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis38 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis36 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis33 sites
- Linoproductus cora32 sites
- Lophophyllidium32 sites
- Antiquatonia31 sites
- Glabrocingulum30 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis30 sites
- Linoproductus29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 248 sites for Parajuresania, and this reads 240 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
32 references- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas56
- The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas35
- T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University32
- Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas26
- Community paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian Winchell Formation, north-central Texas17
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri15
- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.11
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas8
- Middle Pennsylvanian Brachiopods From the Mud Springs Mountains and Derry Hills, New Mexico6
- Stratigraphy and brachiopod and molluscan paleontology of the Red Tanks Formation (Madera Group) near the Pennsylvanian–Permian boundary, Lucero uplift, west-central New Mexico5
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironment of the upper Honaker Trail Formation near Moab, Utah4
- Late Bashkirian ammonoids from the Mospyne Formation of the Donets Basin, Ukraine3
Each of the 248 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Parajuresania
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wagner, Steve
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parajuresania 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 itJuresaniini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.