Neoprobolium

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanitidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Neoprobolium 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Neoprobolium and its relatives
DevonianWhere Neoprobolium and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Acrospirifer2 sites
- Aesopomum2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Chonostrophiella2 sites
- Coelospirella2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Discomyorthis2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Leptaenopyxis bouei2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Megastrophia (Protomegastrophia)2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Paciphacops altaicus2 sites
- Paraspirifer2 sites
- Proschizophoria2 sites
- Reeftonia2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Styliolina2 sites
- Tentaculitida2 sites
- Wilsoniella2 sites
- Algae1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Neoprobolium, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Neoprobolium
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neoprobolium 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 itDalmanitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Struve 1985