Paralegoceras iowense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalegocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 306 Mya.
3 occurrences of Paralegoceras iowense 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
3 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
- Boggy Formation · Deese Group1
- Atoka Formation1
- Smithwick Formation1
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The named rock units Paralegoceras iowense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paralegoceras iowense and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paralegoceras iowense and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Pseudopronorites2 sites
- Agathiceras1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Anomphalidae1 site
- Anomphalus1 site
- Anthracospirifer1 site
- Apotocardium cordatum1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Archaeolithophyllum1 site
- Astartella1 site
- Aurimorpha varia1 site
- Baylea giffordi1 site
- Baylea tenera1 site
- Beedeina1 site
- Bisatoceras primum1 site
- Boesites1 site
- Boesites (Eoboesites) scotti1 site
- Bradyina1 site
- Buckhornia carteri1 site
- Cavernula coccidia1 site
- Cavernula pediculata1 site
- Chaenocardia1 site
- Chaetetes milleporaceus1 site
- Climacammina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paralegoceras iowense, 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
3 references- Facies and fauna of the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry deposit: a review and new data on an important Palaeozoic fossil Lagerstätte with aragonite preservation1
- The Pennsylvanian Ammonoid Family Welleritidae1
- Marine fossils from the coal measures of Arkansas1
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. 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
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No picture of Paralegoceras iowense 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 Paralegoceras iowense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralegoceras iowense was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itParalegoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1860)