Paraparchites cyclopeus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaparchitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Paraparchites cyclopeus 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Fayetteville Formation4
- Mount Head Formation · Rundle Group1
- Diamond Peak Formation1
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The named rock units Paraparchites cyclopeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraparchites cyclopeus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paraparchites cyclopeus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Graphiadactyllis4 sites
- Orthobairdia cestriensis4 sites
- Graphiadactyllis arkansana3 sites
- Healdia3 sites
- Kirkbya3 sites
- Paladin mucronatus3 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Cavellina2 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Criboconcha spp.2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cypricardella2 sites
- Cypricardinia2 sites
- Echinoconchus biseriatus2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Hypotetragona2 sites
- Punctospirifer2 sites
- Roundyella2 sites
- Sansabella2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Torynifer2 sites
- ? Tetratylis sp.1 site
- Acratia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paraparchites cyclopeus, 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
3 references- Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma - Ostracodes4
- Mississippian stratigraphy of the Diamond Peak Area, Eureka County, Nevada1
- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta1
Each of the 6 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 Paraparchites cyclopeus 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 Paraparchites cyclopeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraparchites cyclopeus 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 itParaparchites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1910)