Parioxys ferricolus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParioxysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Olsoniformes
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Olsoniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Parioxys ferricolus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Belle Plains Formation · Wichita Group3
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Parioxys ferricolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parioxys ferricolus and its relatives
PermianWhere Parioxys ferricolus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Eryops2 sites
- Ophiacodon retroversus2 sites
- Secodontosaurus obtusidens2 sites
- Annularia1 site
- Aphlebia1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Archeria1 site
- Aspidiopsis1 site
- Aspidosaurus1 site
- Bolosaurus major1 site
- Bolosaurus striatus1 site
- Callipteris1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Cricotus1 site
- Daubreeia1 site
- Diadectes1 site
- Diadectes sideropelicus1 site
- Dimetrodon limbatus1 site
- Dimetrodon macrospondylus1 site
- Dimetrodon natalis1 site
- Diplothmema1 site
- Eothyris parkeyi1 site
- Gigantopteris1 site
- Gomphostrobus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Parioxys ferricolus, 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
3 references- Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I2
- Amphibian mass death in the Permian1
- Descriptions of extinct Batrachia and Reptilia from the Permian formations of Texas1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Parioxys ferricolus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parioxys ferricolus 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 itParioxys through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878