Paraparchites inornatus

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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 least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 9 occurrencesPermian344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences335.4 Mya283.3 Mya344 Mya273 Mya

9 occurrences of Paraparchites inornatus 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

9 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

3 formations

Qixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WChuanshan — 26.42°N, 117.66°E

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The named rock units Paraparchites inornatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paraparchites inornatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Paraparchites inornatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paraparchites inornatus, 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

Each of the 9 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 Paraparchites inornatus 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 inornatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paraparchites inornatus 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 itParaparchites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1886