Parasepsagon variabilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParasepsagonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Parasepsagon variabilis 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
10 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
- Semanggol Formation3
- Muyinhe Formation1
- Fields Creek Formation · Aldrich Mountains Group1
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The named rock units Parasepsagon variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parasepsagon variabilis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Parasepsagon variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Pseudostylosphaera japonica5 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera4 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum3 sites
- Eptingium manfredi3 sites
- Hindeosphaera spinulosa3 sites
- Paroertlispongus rarispinosus3 sites
- Pentaspongodiscus symmetricus3 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla3 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera compacta3 sites
- Tiborella florida3 sites
- Triassocampe3 sites
- Triassocampe deweveri3 sites
- Eptingium nakasekoi2 sites
- Hozmadia2 sites
- Nassellaria2 sites
- Parasepsagon asymmetricus praetetracanthus2 sites
- Paroertlispongus multispinosus2 sites
- Paurinella aequispinosa2 sites
- Paurinella curvata2 sites
- Pentaspongodiscus mesotriassicus2 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera longispinosa2 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera tenuis2 sites
- Spongostylus tricostatus2 sites
- Triassocampe myterocorys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Parasepsagon variabilis, 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
8 references- Permo-Triassic radiolaria from the Semanggol Formation, northwest Peninsular Malaysia3
- Middle Triassic radiolarian faunas from Chiang Dao, Northern Thailand1
- Triassic mid-oceanic sedimentation in Panthalassa Ocean: Sambosan accretionary complex, Japan1
- Triassic radiolarians from the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone in the Jinglu area, Zetang County, southern Tibet1
- Middle Triassic radiolarian fauna from southwest Yunnan, China1
- Late Anisian-Early Ladinian radiolarians and conodonts from Smarna Gora near Ljubljana, Slovenia1
- Studies of Radiolaria from the Fields Creek Formation, east-central Oregon, USA1
- Radiolarians in the Jurassic siliceous shale and in the Triassic bedded chert of Unuma, Kagamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan1
Each of the 10 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.
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No picture of Parasepsagon variabilis 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 variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasepsagon variabilis 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 itParasepsagon through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979)