Proceratopyge longa
No picture of Proceratopyge longa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proceratopyge longa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProceratopygePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ceratopygidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 491 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Proceratopyge longa 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
2 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
1 formation
- Modder River Siltstone Formation · Owen Group2
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The named rock units Proceratopyge longa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proceratopyge longa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Proceratopyge longa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Charchaqia halli2 sites
- Leiagnostus inletensis2 sites
- Lotagnostus (Lotagnostus) trisectus2 sites
- Neoagnostus2 sites
- Niobella birchensis2 sites
- Proteuloma huochengensis2 sites
- Skljarella expansa2 sites
- Duplora1 site
- Hungaiidae1 site
- Ivshinaspis reticulata1 site
- Macropyge1 site
- Micragnostus1 site
- Onchonotellus1 site
- Parabolinella triarthra1 site
- Remopleuridacea1 site
- Trilobagnostus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Proceratopyge longa, 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
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 Proceratopyge longa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proceratopyge longa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProceratopyge through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bao and Jago 2000