Parastrophinidae

Anastrophia Hall, 1867, a relative of Parastrophinidae — not Parastrophinidae itself

Not Parastrophinidae. This is Anastrophia Hall, 1867, a relative — both are Parastrophinidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CamerelloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 351 occurrencesOrdovician — about 164 of 351 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 138 of 351 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 50 of 351 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–456 Mya — about 17 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 27 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 48 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 34 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 26 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 23 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 10 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 12 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 33 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 21 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 19 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 18 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 19 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 19 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 15 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.1 Mya413.02 Mya489 Mya392 Mya

351 occurrences of Parastrophinidae 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

351 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

131 formations

Anderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EAnderken — 43.92°N, 75.48°EAnderken — 44.55°N, 74.85°EAnderken — 45.08°N, 73.38°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 35.00°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WAttawapiskat — 53.20°N, 81.50°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WAttawapiskat — 53.13°N, 81.05°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.38°N, 62.08°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.36°N, 61.98°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.24°WVaureal — 49.68°N, 63.83°WWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WRoad River — 65.00°N, 136.00°WRoad River — 64.76°N, 135.17°WBecscie — 49.82°N, 64.35°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBecscie — 49.32°N, 61.86°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WDulankara — 46.71°N, 70.06°EDulankara — 43.72°N, 75.31°EXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°ERochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WWindmill Limestone — 38.87°N, 117.92°WWindmill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°WMcMonnigal Limestone — 39.09°N, 116.85°WMcMonnigal Limestone — 39.07°N, 116.72°WMcMonnigal Limestone — 39.05°N, 116.72°WBeijuntang — 23.35°N, 109.33°EBeijuntang — 22.00°N, 110.00°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°ELochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.97°N, 14.13°EAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WAmadjuak — 63.75°N, 68.95°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WLindsay — 44.58°N, 78.98°W

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The named rock units Parastrophinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 107 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parastrophinidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Parastrophinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,602 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 301 sites for Parastrophinidae, and this reads 240 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

129 references

Each of the 351 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. 117 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 content1

Picture of Anastrophia Hall, 1867

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parastrophinidae 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 itCamerelloidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1938