Paralogania

Paralogania is an extinct genus of thelodont fish that is known from the Upper Silurian geological period ; the best fossil deposits are from the Baltic Sea region, but it is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.

Paralogania

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoganelliidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 81 occurrencesSilurian — about 80 of 81 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 81 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 9 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 10 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 13 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 14 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 15 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya419.62 Mya443.7 Mya412.4 Mya

81 occurrences of Paralogania on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

81 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

24 formations

Downton Castle Sandstone — 52.57°N, 2.48°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.20°N, 3.00°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.45°N, 2.12°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.93°N, 4.37°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.05°N, 2.70°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.47°N, 1.88°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.70°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.70°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.93°N, 4.37°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.47°N, 1.88°WLudlow Bone Bed — 51.96°N, 3.74°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.00°N, 2.52°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.03°N, 2.63°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.54°N, 2.62°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.47°N, 2.73°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.27°N, 2.38°WLudlow Bone Bed — 52.43°N, 3.01°WKrasnaya Bukhta — 79.87°N, 92.52°EKrasnaya Bukhta — 79.50°N, 96.00°EHalla — 57.61°N, 18.80°EUst'-Spokojnaya — 79.50°N, 96.00°EGolomyannyj — 79.50°N, 97.00°EGolomyannyj — 79.87°N, 92.52°ELeintwardine — 52.40°N, 2.78°WViita Beds — 59.07°N, 24.79°EVesiku Beds — 59.07°N, 24.79°ESundvollen — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESamojlovich — 79.50°N, 97.00°EKlinteberg — 57.61°N, 18.80°EElton — 52.37°N, 2.70°WPaadla — 58.34°N, 22.48°EHimmiste — 58.27°N, 21.96°EBarlow Inlet — 75.04°N, 93.65°WKuressaare — 58.31°N, 22.54°EWoolhope Limestone — 52.13°N, 2.37°WSedgley Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.05°WWhitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.73°WChester Bjerg — 81.76°N, 61.77°WKuimov — 80.48°N, 95.00°EVelikoretskaya — 67.59°N, 49.12°E

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The named rock units Paralogania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paralogania and its relatives

Silurian

Where Paralogania and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Paralogania, 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

13 references

Each of the 81 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Paralogania

Credit
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Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paralogania 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karatajute-Talimaa 1978