Paraliospira gradata
No picture of Paraliospira gradata 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 Paraliospira gradata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaliospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paraliospira gradata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paraliospira gradata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraliospira gradata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paraliospira gradata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Lophospira milleri3 sites
- Lophospira perangulata3 sites
- Bimuria2 sites
- Cyclonema2 sites
- Donaldiella derwiduii2 sites
- Ectomaria callahanensis2 sites
- Ectomaria prisca2 sites
- Helicotoma griffinorum2 sites
- Liospira modesta2 sites
- Maclurites2 sites
- Megalomphala contorta2 sites
- Pachystrophia devexa2 sites
- Paraliospira mundula2 sites
- Boucotspira fimbriata1 site
- Eotomaria1 site
- Globonema niota1 site
- Linsleyella greggi1 site
- Linsleyella johnsoni1 site
- Megalomphala1 site
- Ophiletina sublaxa1 site
- Paraliospira angulata1 site
- Paraliospira helena1 site
- Paraliospira planata1 site
- Stenoloron fasciata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paraliospira gradata, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paraliospira gradata 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 Paraliospira gradata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraliospira gradata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParaliospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rohr 1980