Prosaukia

Prosaukia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DikelocephalidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dikelocephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 491 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 69 of 69 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 69 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 8 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 13 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 17 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 19 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 7 occurrences491 Mya – 490.2 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

69 occurrences of Prosaukia 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

69 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

21 formations

Franconia — 44.45°N, 92.27°WFranconia — 44.42°N, 91.21°WWilberns — 30.93°N, 99.41°WWilberns — 30.62°N, 99.34°WWilberns — 30.73°N, 99.42°WWilberns — 30.98°N, 99.47°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.27°WWilberns — 30.46°N, 99.13°WDeadwood — 44.28°N, 103.78°WDeadwood — 44.30°N, 103.62°WDeadwood — 44.20°N, 103.45°WDeadwood — 44.38°N, 103.68°WDeadwood — 44.63°N, 104.38°WDeadwood — 44.35°N, 104.95°WChatsworth Limestone — 22.53°S, 140.28°EWhitehall — 42.56°N, 73.40°WBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EFengshan — 36.07°N, 113.82°EChatsworth — 22.01°S, 140.30°ESignal Mountain Limestone — 34.39°N, 97.12°WHoyt Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WHoyt Limestone — 43.08°N, 73.86°WBison Creek — 51.50°N, 116.20°WNotch Peak — 39.22°N, 113.40°WGorge — 44.93°N, 73.05°WMistaya — 51.50°N, 116.20°WRabbitkettle — 64.59°N, 130.00°WKeeseville — 43.08°N, 73.86°WTomahawk — 22.00°S, 134.92°EShallow Bay — 49.83°N, 57.87°WTangcun — 30.63°N, 118.20°EMazomanie — 44.07°N, 89.63°WWindfall — 39.97°N, 114.88°W

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

Prosaukia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Prosaukia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Prosaukia, 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

21 references

Each of the 69 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Prosaukia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itDikelocephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Resser 1933