Prochuangia

Prochuangia is an extinct genus of trilobites reported from the Cambrian and Ordovician, It is reported from Iran, China, Australia, France, Türkiye, and Kazakhstan.

Prochuangia

Amir Ali Iranshahi 3 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeiostegiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Leiostegiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 43 of 43 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 43 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 6 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 6 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 6 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 6 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–490 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505 Mya486.4 Mya

43 occurrences of Prochuangia 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

43 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

8 formations

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EChatsworth — 22.00°S, 140.30°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°ESeydisehir — 37.42°N, 43.63°EChatsworth Limestone — 23.50°S, 139.78°EChatsworth Limestone — 21.80°S, 139.00°EMila — 35.81°N, 53.28°EVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 2.00°ELangyashan — 32.27°N, 118.25°E

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

Prochuangia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Prochuangia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Prochuangia, 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

10 references

Each of the 43 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 Prochuangia

Credit
Amir Ali Iranshahi 3
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLeiostegiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kobayashi 1935