Phillipsinella parabola
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhillipsinellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
11 occurrences of Phillipsinella parabola 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
11 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
6 formations
- Kraluv Dvur Formation4
- Fjacka Shale Formation2
- Torver Formation2
- Rhiwlas Limestone Formation1
- White Head Formation1
- Kirkley Bank Formation · Dent Group1
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The named rock units Phillipsinella parabola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phillipsinella parabola and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phillipsinella parabola and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
298 taxa- Staurocephalus clavifrons5 sites
- Actinopeltis3 sites
- Aegiria3 sites
- Amphitryon murchisonii3 sites
- Anoptambonites monetus3 sites
- Anticostia teres3 sites
- Calymene3 sites
- Cyclospira3 sites
- Dalmanitina mucronata3 sites
- Gravicalymene asperula3 sites
- Harpes3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Kozlowskites nuntius3 sites
- Marekolithus kosoviensis3 sites
- Mucronaspis3 sites
- Nankinolithus granulatus3 sites
- Ravozetina3 sites
- Tretaspis3 sites
- Trinodus tardus3 sites
- ? Parapyxion fugax2 sites
- ? Paraschmidtella densipunctata2 sites
- "Beyrichia" barbara2 sites
- "Cytheropsis" derelicta2 sites
- "Entomozoe" rara2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Phillipsinella parabola, 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
6 references- The age, stratigraphy and genesis of the Coniston Limestone Group in the southern Lake District3
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia3
- The Tretaspis Series of the Kullatorp Core2
- Kralodvor-Kosoviensis boundary at the Late Ordovician environmental changes in the Prague Basin (Barrandian Area, Bohemia)1
- Gaspé Peninsula, Percé area1
- The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV1
Each of the 11 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 Phillipsinella parabola
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Phillipsinella parabola 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 itPhillipsinella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stormer 1953)