Cyphoproetus

Searched as Cyphoproetus comitilis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cyphoproetus as the accepted name.

Cyphoproetus

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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 most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439.1 Mya432.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Cyphoproetus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

2 formations

Wether Law Linn — 55.80°N, 3.39°WCock Rig — 55.81°N, 3.36°W

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

Cyphoproetus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cyphoproetus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Cyphoproetus, 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 7 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 Cyphoproetus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyphoproetus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProetinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kegel 1927)