Decoroproetus farragatus
No picture of Decoroproetus farragatus 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 Decoroproetus farragatus, 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 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Decoroproetus farragatus 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Decoroproetus farragatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Decoroproetus farragatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Decoroproetus farragatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Acernaspis superciliexcelsis2 sites
- Cyphoproetus externus2 sites
- Deiphon2 sites
- Dicranopeltis2 sites
- Encrinurus squarrosus2 sites
- Exallaspis varbolensis2 sites
- Hadromeros elongatus2 sites
- Harpidella (Harpidella) newlandensis2 sites
- Hemiarges2 sites
- Kosovopeltis2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Platylichas2 sites
- Acernaspis xynon1 site
- Astroproetus interjectus1 site
- Astroproetus scoticus1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Calymene ubitquitosus1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina)1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
- Globulaspis1 site
- Leptostrophia jamesoni1 site
- Miraspis1 site
- Neolichas silvestris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Decoroproetus farragatus, 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 2 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 farragatus 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 Decoroproetus farragatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Decoroproetus farragatus 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 SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howells 1982