Proampyx difformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProampyxPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Agraulidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Proampyx difformis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Proampyx difformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proampyx difformis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Proampyx difformis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Glaberagnostus cicer3 sites
- Acadagnostus ferox2 sites
- Goniagnostus nathorsti2 sites
- Lejopyge laevigatus2 sites
- Opsidiscus bilobatus2 sites
- Paradoxides forchhammeri2 sites
- Peronopsis2 sites
- Proampyx aculeatus2 sites
- Proampyx acuminatus2 sites
- Valenagnostus marginatus2 sites
- Acidusus aculeatus1 site
- Anopolenus1 site
- Bailiaspis1 site
- Bailiaspis glabrata1 site
- Conokephalina ornata1 site
- Corynexochus1 site
- Dasometopus breviceps1 site
- Doryagnostus incertus1 site
- Glaberagnostus bituberculatus1 site
- Granularaspis1 site
- Groenwallia microphthalma1 site
- Hartshillia1 site
- Holasaphus1 site
- Juraspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Proampyx difformis, 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
4 references- Middle Cambrian agnostoids and trilobites from the Lower Allochthon, Swedish Caledonides2
- Guzhangian (mid Cambrian) trilobites from siliceous concretions of the Valtorres Formation, Iberian Chains, NE Spain1
- Late Middle Cambrian trilobites of Siberian Aspect from the Farewell Terrane, Southwestern Alaska1
- Rozova, 19641
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Proampyx difformis 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 Proampyx difformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proampyx difformis 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 itProampyx through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1851)