Paraphragmites
No picture of Paraphragmites 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 Paraphragmites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaphragmitidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Paraphragmites 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
9 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Paraphragmites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraphragmites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Paraphragmites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Protochonetes ludloviensis8 sites
- Salopina lunata8 sites
- Ceramopora7 sites
- Fuchsella amygdalina7 sites
- Hyolithes7 sites
- Leioclema7 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula7 sites
- Serpulites7 sites
- Craniops6 sites
- Cytherellina6 sites
- Hebellum6 sites
- Lingula6 sites
- Michelinoceras6 sites
- Rugadiscina rugata6 sites
- Pterinea5 sites
- Calcaribeyrichia4 sites
- Dayia navicula4 sites
- Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis4 sites
- Orthoceras4 sites
- Pseudolingula lewisii4 sites
- Scaldianella4 sites
- Arabellites3 sites
- Beyrichia3 sites
- Cardiola interrupta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paraphragmites, 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- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England8
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
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 Paraphragmites 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 Paraphragmites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraphragmites 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 itParaphragmitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1943