Parkinsonia parkinsoni

Rudolf Pohl · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- ParkinsoniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Parkinsonia parkinsoni on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
15 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
6 formations
- Tsudakhar Formation3
- "Berching" Formation2
- Dalichai Formation1
- Tasharvat Formation1
- Sarydinrmen Formation1
- Djangura Formation1
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The named rock units Parkinsonia parkinsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parkinsonia parkinsoni and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Parkinsonia parkinsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Oxycerites aspidoides3 sites
- Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) bomfordi3 sites
- Cadomites deslongchampsi2 sites
- Gonolkites rectangularis2 sites
- Oecotraustes (Oecotraustes) bomfordi2 sites
- Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) dorsetensis2 sites
- Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) pseudoferruginea2 sites
- Parkinsonia (Parkinsonia) schloenbachi2 sites
- Parkinsonia pseudoplanulata2 sites
- Prorsisphinctes2 sites
- Vermisphinctes2 sites
- Asteracanthus magnus1 site
- Belemnopsis bessinus1 site
- Bigotites petri1 site
- Cadomites (Cadomites)1 site
- Cadomites (Cadomites) daubeni1 site
- Cadomites (Cadomites) rectelobatus1 site
- Cadomites (Polyplectites)1 site
- Garantiana1 site
- Haselburgites datunense1 site
- Leptosphinctes1 site
- Lissoceras1 site
- Lissoceras haugi1 site
- Lissoceras oolithicum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Parkinsonia parkinsoni, 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- Besnosov and Mitta, 19935
- Bajocian-Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites from the Polish Jura. Part 2: Families Stephanoceratidae, Perisphinctidae, Parkinsoniidae, Morphoceratidae and Tulitidae3
- The Inferior Oolite at Coombe Quarry, near Mapperton, Dorset, and a new Middle Jurassic ammonite faunal horizon, Aa-3b, Leioceras comptocostosum n.biosp. in the Scissum Zone of the Lower Aalenian2
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]2
- Superfamily Perisphinctoidea (Ammonoidea) in the Bajocian–Lower Bathonian of the Kuban River Basin (Northern Caucasus, Russia)1
- Late Bajocian-Bathonian ammonites from northeast Iran1
- Note sur les Poissons et les Reptiles du Jurassique inférieur du département de l'Indre [Note on the fishes and reptiles from the Lower Jurassic of the department of Indre]1
Each of the 15 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 content2

Picture of Parkinsonia parkinsoni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Rudolf Pohl
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParkinsonia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1821)