Paralegoceras texanum

Paralegoceras texanum

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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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 13 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya315.2 Mya323.9 Mya306.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Paralegoceras texanum 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

13 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

4 formations

Winslow — 35.63°N, 94.37°WWinslow — 35.78°N, 94.37°WWinslow — 36.07°N, 94.15°WWinslow — 35.80°N, 94.14°WWinslow — 35.66°N, 94.15°WWinslow — 35.69°N, 94.12°WSmithwick — 31.09°N, 98.52°WSmithwick — 31.13°N, 98.81°WSmithwick — 31.22°N, 99.15°WWitts Springs — 35.63°N, 94.42°WAtoka — 35.59°N, 94.29°W

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The named rock units Paralegoceras texanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paralegoceras texanum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paralegoceras texanum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Paralegoceras texanum, 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 13 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 content1

Picture of Paralegoceras texanum

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Licence
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No 3D scan of Paralegoceras texanum 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 itParalegoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard 1863)