Paralithostrotion

No picture of Paralithostrotion 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 Paralithostrotion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetalaxidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian337–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya298.9 Mya336.7 Mya292.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Paralithostrotion 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

2 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

1 formation

Chuanshan — 31.30°N, 119.63°E

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The named rock units Paralithostrotion 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.

Paralithostrotion and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paralithostrotion and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paralithostrotion, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Paralithostrotion 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 Paralithostrotion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paralithostrotion 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 itPetalaxidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorskiy 1938