Parataxidea

Searched as Parataxidea maraghana. The Paleobiology Database treats Parataxidea as the accepted name.

Parataxidea

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-ND · via iDigBio. 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
MustelidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 3.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPliocene8.8–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.5–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.22 Mya4.59 Mya

2 occurrences of Parataxidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

2 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

2 formations

Yatagan — 37.34°N, 28.24°EBeyağaç — 37.27°N, 28.97°E

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

Parataxidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parataxidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Parataxidea, 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

Each of the 2 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. 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 Parataxidea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Parataxidea 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 itMustelidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zdansky 1924