Parasolenopleura

Searched as Parasolenopleura spinigera. The Paleobiology Database treats Parasolenopleura as the accepted name.

Parasolenopleura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenopleuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Solenopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Parasolenopleura on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

1 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

1 formation

Alum Shale — 58.76°N, 15.52°E

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The named rock units Parasolenopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Parasolenopleura and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Parasolenopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Parasolenopleura, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Parasolenopleura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Parasolenopleura 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 itSolenopleuridae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westergard 1953