Paromalomena zheni
No picture of Paromalomena zheni 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 Paromalomena zheni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParomalomenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paromalomena zheni 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
4 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
3 formations
- Billabong Creek Limestone Formation2
- Quondong Limestone Formation1
- Vandon Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Paromalomena zheni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paromalomena zheni and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paromalomena zheni and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Australispira4 sites
- Bowanorthis fragilis4 sites
- Doleroides mixticius4 sites
- Mabella halis4 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes4 sites
- Zygospira4 sites
- Dinorthis hadra3 sites
- Ecclimadictyon3 sites
- Eridorthis australis3 sites
- Hillophyllum3 sites
- Parkesolithus3 sites
- Pliomerina3 sites
- Rhynchotrema oepiki3 sites
- Shlyginia rectangularis3 sites
- Trigrammaria ampla3 sites
- Acidolites2 sites
- Amphilichas2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Bajgolia2 sites
- Chaganella speciosa2 sites
- Christiania skolia2 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Coccoseris2 sites
- Didymelasma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paromalomena zheni, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paromalomena zheni 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 Paromalomena zheni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paromalomena zheni 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 itParomalomena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 2009