Coniproetus

Männil, Reet · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProetinaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
122 occurrences of Coniproetus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
122 occurrencesThese 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
30 formations
- Garra Formation47
- Kopanina Formation9
- Lochkov Formation8
- Slivenec Limestone Formation · Branik Limestone Group6
- Delorme Formation4
- Koneprusy Limestone Formation4
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The named rock units Coniproetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coniproetus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Coniproetus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
842 taxa- Proetus (Coniproetus) irroratus46 sites
- Ceratocephala16 sites
- Otarion12 sites
- Crinoidea11 sites
- Decoroscutellum10 sites
- Gravicalymene10 sites
- Nowakia10 sites
- Ostracoda9 sites
- Ananaspis fecunda8 sites
- Atrypa8 sites
- Conoparia novaki8 sites
- Eoglossinotoechia8 sites
- Howellella8 sites
- Kosovopeltis8 sites
- Leonaspis lochkovensis8 sites
- Brachiopoda7 sites
- Crotalocephalina chlupaci7 sites
- Dalejina7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Gerastos retroflexus7 sites
- Havlicekia7 sites
- Hebetoechia7 sites
- Otarion listron7 sites
- Plectodonta7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Coniproetus, 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
28 references- Silicified Lower Devonian trilobites from New South Wales47
- Bohemian Silurian and Devonian Proetidae (Trilobita)19
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages13
- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments7
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)5
- Wenlock trilobites and brachiopods from the Mackenzie Mountains, north-western Canada3
- Lochkovian Trilobites and Conodonts from Northwestern Canada3
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia2
- Evolution of the trilobite subfamily Proetinae Salter, 1864, and the origin, diversification, evolutionary affinity, and extinction of the Middle Devonian proetid fauna of eastern North America2
- Correlation of the African Silurian rocks2
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. I. Mit Beitraegen zur Silur-Devon-Stratigraphie einiger Gebiete Marokkos und Oberfrankens2
- Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian1
Each of the 122 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Coniproetus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Männil, Reet
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProetinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Alberti 1966)