Prionopeltis praecedens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionopeltisPBDB
- 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 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prionopeltis praecedens 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Prionopeltis praecedens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prionopeltis praecedens and its relatives
SilurianWhere Prionopeltis praecedens and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Diacanthaspis4 sites
- Otarion diffractum4 sites
- Cardiola3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Encrinuraspis3 sites
- Metacalymene3 sites
- Prantlia longula3 sites
- Septatrypa3 sites
- Shagamella3 sites
- Agarhyncha2 sites
- Atrypoidea linguata2 sites
- Bleshidium patellinum2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Dualina2 sites
- Graptolithina2 sites
- Kosovopeltis2 sites
- Lunulacardium2 sites
- Monograptus2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Spanila2 sites
- Tenellodermis2 sites
- Xeniopugnax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prionopeltis praecedens, 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
2 references- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia2
- Ecostratigraphy of Silurian trilobite assemblages of the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia2
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
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No picture of Prionopeltis praecedens 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 Prionopeltis praecedens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionopeltis praecedens was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPrionopeltis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bouček 1935)