Proceratopyge truncatus
No picture of Proceratopyge truncatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Proceratopyge truncatus, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
24 occurrences of Proceratopyge truncatus 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
24 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Proceratopyge truncatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proceratopyge truncatus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Proceratopyge truncatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Proceratopyge truncatus, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
4 references- Corynexochida, Lichida and Asaphida10
- Proposed GSSP for the base of Cambrian Stage 9, coinciding with the first appearance of Agnostotes orientalis, at Duibian, Zhejiang, China8
- Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China5
- New polymerid trilobites and the first record of Erixanium from Upper Cambrian in western Hunan, China1
Each of the 24 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 Proceratopyge truncatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Proceratopyge truncatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proceratopyge truncatus 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 itProceratopyge through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yang 1977