Parallelodon hettangiensis

Parallelodon hettangiensis

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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 45 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–200 Mya — about 6 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 6 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206.6 Mya160.6 Mya

15 occurrences of Parallelodon hettangiensis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

15 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

8 formations

Sedrina — 45.00°N, 9.00°EBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WRiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°EZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ESedrina Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ELilstock — 50.80°N, 2.98°WGijón — 43.52°N, 5.87°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Parallelodon hettangiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parallelodon hettangiensis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Parallelodon hettangiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

190 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Parallelodon hettangiensis, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 Parallelodon hettangiensis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Parallelodon hettangiensis 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 itParallelodon through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Terquem 1855)