Crassiproetus occidens
Cooper & Cloud · 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
- CrassiproetusPBDB
- 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 most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Crassiproetus occidens 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
4 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
1 formation
- Little Cedar Formation · Cedar Valley Group4
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The named rock units Crassiproetus occidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassiproetus occidens and its relatives
DevonianWhere Crassiproetus occidens and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Greenops2 sites
- Megistocrinus2 sites
- Orthospirifer2 sites
- Phacops rana norwoodensis2 sites
- Spinatrypa2 sites
- Astraeospongium1 site
- Blastoidea1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Devonatrypa1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Fenestellidae1 site
- Melocrinites1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Placodermi1 site
- Platyceratidae1 site
- Protoleptostrophia1 site
- Rugosa1 site
- Schizophoria1 site
- Schizophoria (Schizophoria) iowensis1 site
- Stereolasmatidae1 site
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)1 site
- Tentaculitida1 site
- Tylothyris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crassiproetus occidens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Middle Devonian (Givetian) trilobite clusters from eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois2
- Trilobites from the Late Givetian Solon Member, Little Cedar Formation of Eastern Iowa and Northwestern Illinois, in, The stratigraphy, paleontology, depositional and diagenetic history of the Middle-Upper Devonian Cedar Valley Group of Central and Eastern Iowa2
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Crassiproetus occidens
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cooper & Cloud
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crassiproetus occidens 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCrassiproetus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1861)