Parastylonurus ornatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParastylonurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
3 occurrences of Parastylonurus ornatus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Slot Burn Formation · Waterhead Group1
- Fish Bed Formation1
- Reservoir Formation · North Esk Group1
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The named rock units Parastylonurus ornatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parastylonurus ornatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Parastylonurus ornatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Hughmilleria2 sites
- Lanarkopterus2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- ? Bracyhopterella sp.1 site
- Ateleaspis1 site
- Ateleaspis tessellata1 site
- Bembicosoma pomphicus1 site
- Birkenia1 site
- Birkenia elegans1 site
- Brachyopterella1 site
- Carcinosoma scoticus1 site
- Ciderius cooperi1 site
- Dolichophonus loudonensis1 site
- Drepanopterus pentlandicus1 site
- Geisonoceras maclareni1 site
- Hardieopterus macrophthalmus1 site
- Lanarkia1 site
- Lanarkia horrida1 site
- Lanarkia lanceolata1 site
- Lanarkia spinosa1 site
- Lanarkia spinulosa1 site
- Lasanius1 site
- Lasanius armatus1 site
- Lasanius ornatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parastylonurus ornatus, 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
2 references- Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids2
- On a Silurian scorpion and some additional eurypterid remains from the Pentland Hills1
Each of the 3 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 Parastylonurus ornatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Parastylonurus ornatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parastylonurus ornatus 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 itParastylonurus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Laurie 1892)