Parallelodon dickinsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParallelodonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodon
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodon
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodon
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Parallelodon dickinsi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Coolkilya Formation2
- Mangarewa Formation · Productus Creek Group2
- Liveringa Formation1
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The named rock units Parallelodon dickinsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parallelodon dickinsi and its relatives
PermianWhere Parallelodon dickinsi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Aperispirifer lethamensis2 sites
- Maorielasma imperatum2 sites
- Mourlonopsis strzeleckiana2 sites
- Peruvispira imbricata2 sites
- Platyteichum loratum2 sites
- Promytilus mytiliformis2 sites
- Quadratonucula asymmetrica2 sites
- Aphanaia mitchelli1 site
- Arctitreta1 site
- Arctitreta pelicanensis1 site
- Bransonia australe1 site
- Bransonia robustum1 site
- Corrugopecten altoprimus1 site
- Corrugopecten multicostatus1 site
- Cycloscena glabra1 site
- Deltopecten1 site
- Echinalosia wassi1 site
- Eirlysia modesta1 site
- Etheripecten escalatus1 site
- Etheripecten latus1 site
- Fletcheripecten heterosus1 site
- Fletcherithyris galbina1 site
- Glabripecten glaber1 site
- Glyptoleda reidi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Parallelodon dickinsi, 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 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parallelodon dickinsi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Parallelodon dickinsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itParallelodon through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1980