Reedops prospicens

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- ReedopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 31 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Reedops prospicens 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Slivenec Limestone Formation · Branik Limestone Group2
- Praha Formation1
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The named rock units Reedops prospicens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reedops prospicens and its relatives
DevonianWhere Reedops prospicens and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Reedops sternbergi7 sites
- Dicranurus monstrosus6 sites
- Leonaspis6 sites
- Platyscutellum6 sites
- Poroscutellum6 sites
- Caplinoplia5 sites
- Crotalocephalina gibbus5 sites
- Dalejeproetus dalejensis5 sites
- Nowakia5 sites
- Zlichovaspis (Zlichovaspis) rugosa5 sites
- Boeckops boecki4 sites
- Bojocoryphe splendens4 sites
- Ceratonurus4 sites
- Crotalocephalus pauper4 sites
- Cyphaspis convexum4 sites
- Leptochonetes4 sites
- Metascutellum4 sites
- Odontochile hausmanni4 sites
- Plectodonta (Dalejodiscus)4 sites
- Pragoproetus pragensis4 sites
- Reedops bronni4 sites
- Rugoleptaena4 sites
- Acanthopyge (Perunaspis) minuta3 sites
- Cingulodermis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Reedops prospicens, 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- The Lochkovian-Pragian boundary in the Lower Devonian of the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia)3
- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments2
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages2
Each of the 7 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 Reedops prospicens
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- 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 itReedops through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chlupác 1977