Sculptoproetus sculptus
No picture of Sculptoproetus sculptus 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 Sculptoproetus sculptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SculptoproetusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
10 occurrences of Sculptoproetus sculptus 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
10 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
7 formations
- Zlichov Limestone Formation3
- Amerboh Formation2
- Hamar Laghdad Limestone Formation1
- Tafilalt Limestone Formation1
- El Otfal Formation1
- Lauch Formation1
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The named rock units Sculptoproetus sculptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sculptoproetus sculptus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sculptoproetus sculptus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Pedinopariops degener7 sites
- Asteropyginae4 sites
- Nowakia4 sites
- Ananaspis fecunda3 sites
- Crotalocephalus sternbergi3 sites
- Eremiproetus dufresnoyi3 sites
- Gyroceratites laevis3 sites
- Kettneraspis derelicta3 sites
- Leonaspis hoernesii3 sites
- Lioharpes crassimargo3 sites
- Mimagoniatites bohemicus3 sites
- Montanproetus midas3 sites
- Phacops3 sites
- Reedops decorus3 sites
- Scabriscutellum3 sites
- Sculptoproetus tepes3 sites
- Tropicoryphe hermon3 sites
- Zlichovaspis (Devonodontochile) maccoyi3 sites
- Zlichovaspis (Zlichovaspis) auriculata3 sites
- Zlichovaspis (Zlichovaspis) spinifera3 sites
- Astycoryphe astyx2 sites
- Boeckops delphinoides2 sites
- Buchiproetus calypso2 sites
- Cavetia furcifera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sculptoproetus sculptus, 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
5 references- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II.5
- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments2
- Cornuproetine (proetide) trilobites with nine thorax segments from the Devonian of Morocco, Germany and the Czech Republic1
- Eifel-Trilobiten III. Corynexochida, Proetida (2), Harpetida, Phacopida (2), Lichida1
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages1
Each of the 10 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.
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No picture of Sculptoproetus sculptus 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 Sculptoproetus sculptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sculptoproetus sculptus 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 itSculptoproetus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1846)