Paraparchites texanus
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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 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
15 occurrences of Paraparchites texanus 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
15 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Paraparchites texanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paraparchites texanus and its relatives
PermianWhere Paraparchites texanus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Basslerella firma8 sites
- Bairdia (Cryptobairdia)5 sites
- Bairdia geisi5 sites
- Bairdiacypris fornicata5 sites
- Basslerella tota5 sites
- Cryptobairdia coryelli5 sites
- Orthobairdia exilimarginata5 sites
- Bairdiacypris4 sites
- Orthobairdia ponderosa4 sites
- Roundyella simplicissima4 sites
- Shleesha pinguis4 sites
- Silenites4 sites
- Bairdia3 sites
- Bairdia folgeri3 sites
- Bairdia hassi3 sites
- Bairdia piscariformis3 sites
- Bairdia subcontracta3 sites
- Bairdia subleguminoides3 sites
- Bairdia urodeloformis3 sites
- Bairdiacypris longirobusta3 sites
- Cavellina rotunda3 sites
- Cyathus caperata3 sites
- Cyathus elliptica3 sites
- Fabalicypris parva3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Paraparchites texanus, 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
5 references- Ostracodes from the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic at the Kongtongshan section of Datian, Fujian6
- Ostracode fauna from Lower Permian Chihsia Formation of Guangping in Datian, Fujian5
- Ostracoden aus dem Oberkarbon und Unterperm der Karnischen Alpen (Osterreich): systematik, biostratigraphie und palokologie2
- Upper Paleozoic ostracodes of the Harper Ranch beds (south-central British Columbia, Canada)1
- The Changhsingian ostracodes from Meishan, Changxing, Zhejiang1
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 content0
No picture of Paraparchites texanus 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 texanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraparchites texanus 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. Delo 1930