Parasepsagon

No picture of Parasepsagon 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 Parasepsagon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HindeosphaeridaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 37 of 40 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 40 occurrencesLate Triassic249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 5 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 11 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 9 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya227.3 Mya249.3 Mya214.7 Mya

40 occurrences of Parasepsagon on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

40 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

6 formations

Semanggol — 6.10°N, 100.55°ESemanggol — 5.53°N, 100.63°EFields Creek — 44.27°N, 119.27°WPhasoula — 34.97°N, 32.33°EMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°ESlate Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°EBuchenstein — 45.75°N, 11.33°E

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The named rock units Parasepsagon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parasepsagon and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Parasepsagon and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Parasepsagon, 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

16 references

Each of the 40 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Parasepsagon 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 Parasepsagon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Parasepsagon 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 itHindeosphaeridae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica et al. 1980