Paraulopus davisi was an aulopiform fish known from London Clay otoliths and usually associated with the paraulopid lineage. Living paraulopids are bottom-associated marine predators, often inhabiting shelf and slope settings and feeding on smaller fishes and invertebrates. That ecology is a reasonable guide to the fossil animal, but the body itself is not preserved.

The otolith has a distinctive inner-face geometry and sulcus organization, including a relatively short, straight cauda. Later otolith studies have noted that the species-level diagnosis deserves revision, so complete, well-preserved specimens are especially important for evaluating its morphology.