Paraproetus girvanensis

Paraproetus girvanensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaproetusPBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 448.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.3 Mya444.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Paraproetus girvanensis 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

4 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

4 formations

Lady Burn — 55.30°N, 4.76°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WTroutbeck — 54.43°N, 2.77°WAsh Gill — 54.33°N, 3.08°W

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

Paraproetus girvanensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Paraproetus girvanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paraproetus girvanensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Paraproetus girvanensis

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

No 3D scan of Paraproetus girvanensis 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 itParaproetus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nicholson and Etheridge 1879)