Parapliomera
No picture of Parapliomera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Parapliomera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliomeridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Parapliomera 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
8 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
5 formations
- Ust’Kut Formation3
- Kamlak Formation · Takoshkin Group2
- Tochil’naya Formation1
- Ust'Kut Formation1
- Nyaiskii Formation1
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The named rock units Parapliomera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parapliomera and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parapliomera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Finkelnburgia7 sites
- Nanorthis7 sites
- Drepanodus6 sites
- Paltodus6 sites
- Scandodus6 sites
- Acodus5 sites
- Cordylodus5 sites
- Glaphurus4 sites
- Loxodus4 sites
- Oneotodus4 sites
- Teridontus4 sites
- Acanthodus3 sites
- Acodina3 sites
- Platypeltoides3 sites
- Scolopodus3 sites
- Apheoorthis vicina2 sites
- Hirsutodontus2 sites
- Nyaya2 sites
- Semiacontiodus2 sites
- Syntrophina2 sites
- Tersella2 sites
- Tetralobula2 sites
- Agetocystis sp.1 site
- Amzasskiella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Parapliomera, 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- Ordovician siberian Platform: Fauna and stratigraphy of the Lena Facial Zone; Novosibirski; Nauka Sib. Birch6
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- The new Ordovician stage standard as applied to the stratigraphic units of the western Altai–Sayan Folded Area1
Each of the 8 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 Parapliomera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Parapliomera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parapliomera 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPliomeridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maksimova 1962