Proparaparchites
Searched as Proparaparchites fabulus. The Paleobiology Database treats Proparaparchites as the accepted name.
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 most 4.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 318.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Proparaparchites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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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
CarboniferousWhere Proparaparchites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Graphiadactyllis australae13 sites
- Bairdia beedei11 sites
- Graphiadactyllis jonesi11 sites
- Roundyella ludbrookae11 sites
- Healdia westraliaensis10 sites
- Bairdiacypris9 sites
- Healdia crespinae9 sites
- Healdia irwinensis9 sites
- Kirkbya fossilcliffi9 sites
- Aechmina reticulata8 sites
- Healdia chapmani8 sites
- Healdia petchorica8 sites
- Hollinella pirajnoensis8 sites
- Kirkbya6 sites
- Youngiella5 sites
- Youngiella deweyensis5 sites
- Graphiadactylloides flemingi4 sites
- Waylandella holmwoodensis4 sites
- Amphissites centronotus3 sites
- Bairdia hassi3 sites
- Bairdia reussiana3 sites
- Healdia obtusa3 sites
- Healdianella moryi3 sites
- Kirkbya mingenewensis3 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1941