Prosaukia serotina
No picture of Prosaukia serotina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Prosaukia serotina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProsaukiaPBDB
- 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 most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Prosaukia serotina 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
12 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 Prosaukia serotina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prosaukia serotina and its relatives
CambrianWhere Prosaukia serotina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Briscoia llanoensis7 sites
- Euptychaspis kirki7 sites
- Calvinella6 sites
- Stenopilus latus6 sites
- Idiomesus intermedius5 sites
- Bayfieldia simata4 sites
- Eurekia eos4 sites
- Bowmania pennsylvanica3 sites
- Acheilops masonensis2 sites
- Bowmania americana2 sites
- Macronoda2 sites
- Saukia2 sites
- Stenopilus convergens2 sites
- Apatokephaloides clivosus1 site
- Bayfieldia1 site
- Bowmania1 site
- Calvinella tenuisculpta1 site
- Euptychaspis jugalis1 site
- Euptychaspis typicalis1 site
- Eurekia apopsis1 site
- Idiomesus levisensis1 site
- Keithiella patula1 site
- Larifugula leonensis1 site
- Leiocoryphe1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Prosaukia serotina, 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
2 references- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Ptychaspid Biomere Wilberns Formation, central Texas8
- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites, Timbered Hills and Lower Arbuckle Groups, Western Arbuckle Mountains, Murray County, Oklahom4
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Prosaukia serotina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Prosaukia serotina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prosaukia serotina was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProsaukia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Longacre 1970)