Procteria

No picture of Procteria 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 Procteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GranulidictyinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387.95 Mya383.4 Mya394 Mya381.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Procteria on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

3 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

3 formations

Freilingen — 50.52°N, 6.55°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.95°EWallen Slate — 51.40°N, 8.58°E

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

Procteria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Procteria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Procteria, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Procteria 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 Procteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Procteria 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 itGranulidictyinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davis 1887