Parvispina harpago
No picture of Parvispina harpago 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 Parvispina harpago, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParvispinaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Aspidochirotida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Aspidochirotida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aspidochirotida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Aspidochirotida
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parvispina harpago 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
2 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
- Florena Formation1
- Beattie Formation · Council Grove Group1
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The named rock units Parvispina harpago has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parvispina harpago and its relatives
PermianWhere Parvispina harpago and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Achistrum (Achistrum) brownwoodensis2 sites
- Amphiscapha muricata1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Composita1 site
- Derbyia cymbula1 site
- Derbyia hooserensis1 site
- Derbyia wabaunseensis1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Fusulinidae1 site
- Microantyx permiana1 site
- Neochonetes granulifer1 site
- Reticulatia huecoensis1 site
- Trilobita1 site
- Uncinulina lunata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parvispina harpago, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 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
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No picture of Parvispina harpago 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 Parvispina harpago, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parvispina harpago 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 itParvispina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kornicker and Imbrie 1958