Proparaparchites

No picture of Proparaparchites 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 Proparaparchites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaparchitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 164 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 18 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 16 of 18 occurrences475–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–337 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences337–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–293 Mya — about 4 occurrences293–286 Mya — about 12 occurrences458.2 Mya293.52 Mya475 Mya286 Mya

18 occurrences of Proparaparchites 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

18 occurrences

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

Holmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°ELindero — 35.00°S, 68.00°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°W

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The named rock units Proparaparchites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Proparaparchites and its relatives

Permian

Where Proparaparchites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Proparaparchites, 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

3 references

Each of the 18 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 Proparaparchites 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 Proparaparchites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Proparaparchites 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 itParaparchitidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1941