Decoroproetus calvus
No picture of Decoroproetus calvus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Decoroproetus calvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DecoroproetusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.2 Mya and 452.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Decoroproetus calvus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Dwyfach Formation1
- Whittery Formation1
- Dufton Mudstone Formation · Dent Group1
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The named rock units Decoroproetus calvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Decoroproetus calvus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Decoroproetus calvus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Allolichas nodulosus1 site
- Broeggerolithus nicholsoni1 site
- Brongniartella minor1 site
- Conolichas1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Deacybele pauca1 site
- Flexicalymene planimarginata1 site
- Furcitella1 site
- Harpidella1 site
- Howellites1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Kjaerina1 site
- Kloucekia apiculata1 site
- Primaspis1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Scopelochasmops cambrensis1 site
- Sowerbyella1 site
- Stenopareia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Decoroproetus calvus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A Review of British Trilobites, Including a Synoptic Revision of Salter's Monograph2
- Mid-Caradoc magmatism in central Llyn, rhyolite petrogenesis, and the evolution of the Snowdonia volcanic corridor in NW Wales1
Each of the 3 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. 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 Decoroproetus calvus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Decoroproetus calvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Decoroproetus calvus 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 itDecoroproetus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whittard 1961)