Ameura

Ameura is an extinct genus of trilobite belonging to the family Proetidae. Fossils from the genus have been found in late Paleozoic beds in North America.

Ameura

Skye McDavid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
DitomopyginaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 33 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 37 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 4 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 18 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences323.4 Mya298.9 Mya360 Mya292 Mya

37 occurrences of Ameura on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

37 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

13 formations

Pottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 39.05°N, 94.67°WTreskelodden — 77.03°N, 16.21°ETreskelodden — 77.04°N, 16.10°EFort Scott Limestone — 37.30°N, 95.04°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.61°N, 94.75°WElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WGlenshaw — 38.60°N, 82.49°WGlenshaw — 38.68°N, 82.53°WEscabrosa — 31.66°N, 110.90°WFrancis — 34.76°N, 96.68°WForaker — 40.68°N, 96.49°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WPottsville — 39.98°N, 82.27°WZaleski — 39.25°N, 82.47°WJungle Creek — 65.74°N, 137.79°WDrum Limestone — 37.77°N, 95.22°W

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The named rock units Ameura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ameura and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Ameura and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Ameura, 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

11 references

Each of the 37 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 Ameura

Credit
Skye McDavid
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ameura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDitomopyginae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1936