Prosopiscus

No picture of Prosopiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prosopiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProsopiscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Prosopiscidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 18 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471.3 Mya461.1 Mya477.6 Mya457.7 Mya

18 occurrences of Prosopiscus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

18 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

7 formations

Nora — 23.05°S, 139.23°ENora — 23.26°S, 138.61°ENora — 22.97°S, 137.85°ELas Aguaditas — 30.33°S, 68.80°WShihtzupu — 27.76°N, 106.92°EStairway — 24.14°S, 132.27°EXiaqiaojia — 26.00°N, 102.00°ECaroline Creek — 41.25°S, 146.43°EGoldwyer — 18.75°S, 123.58°E

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

Prosopiscus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Prosopiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Prosopiscus, 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

7 references

Each of the 18 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 Prosopiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prosopiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1865