Parisoceraurus
No picture of Parisoceraurus 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 Parisoceraurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheiruridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Parisoceraurus 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
7 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Parisoceraurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parisoceraurus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parisoceraurus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Cyclopyge3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Ovalocephalus3 sites
- Remopleurides3 sites
- Anazyga2 sites
- Calymenesun2 sites
- Dinorthis2 sites
- Encrinuroides2 sites
- Failleana2 sites
- Leptellina2 sites
- Leptelloidea2 sites
- Lonchodomas2 sites
- Modiolopsis2 sites
- Nankinolithus2 sites
- Nileus2 sites
- Paraphillipsinella2 sites
- Phillipsinella2 sites
- Sphaerexochus2 sites
- Taklamakania2 sites
- Telephina2 sites
- Trinodus2 sites
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alceste1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Parisoceraurus, 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
7 references- Late Ordovician trilobites from northwest Iran and their biogeographical affinities1
- New data on the Foliomena fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Upper Ordovician of South China1
- Trilobites from the Upper Ordovician Tangtou Formation, Jiangsu Province, China1
- Regional Geology of GuangDong Province1
- Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge Area. Part (2) Early Paleozoic Era1
- Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part1
- Regional stratigraphic tables of the north western China region: Volume of NinXia Province1
Each of the 7 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 Parisoceraurus 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 Parisoceraurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parisoceraurus 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 itCheiruridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhou 1977