Paraonychoplecia inversa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaonychopleciaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paraonychoplecia inversa 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paraonychoplecia inversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraonychoplecia inversa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paraonychoplecia inversa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Australispira3 sites
- Bowanorthis fragilis3 sites
- Didymelasma3 sites
- Zygospira3 sites
- Doleroides mixticius2 sites
- Mabella halis2 sites
- Paromalomena zheni2 sites
- Protozyga definitiva2 sites
- Quondongia alitis2 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes2 sites
- Amphilichas1 site
- Anoptambonites exedra1 site
- Coccoseris1 site
- Dinorthis hadra1 site
- Ecclimadictyon1 site
- Encrinuraspis1 site
- Eridorthis australis1 site
- Fletcheria1 site
- Geniculomena barnesi1 site
- Hillophyllum1 site
- Paradiscoceras1 site
- Parkesolithus1 site
- Pliomerina1 site
- Pragnellia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paraonychoplecia inversa, 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
2 references- Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia2
- Stratigraphy of the Forbes-Bogan Gated District1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Paraonychoplecia inversa 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 Paraonychoplecia inversa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraonychoplecia inversa 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 itParaonychoplecia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 1991