Cyphoproetus

Cyphoproetus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProetinaePBDB
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 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 19 of 59 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 40 of 59 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457.2 Mya430.6 Mya458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

59 occurrences of Cyphoproetus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

59 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

32 formations

Wether Law Linn — 55.80°N, 3.39°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WKalvsjøen — 59.97°N, 10.67°EKalvsjøen — 60.30°N, 10.55°EAttawapiskat — 52.96°N, 83.16°WAttawapiskat — 52.91°N, 82.68°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WMulloch Hill — 55.28°N, 4.74°WCape Schuchert — 77.51°N, 66.65°WGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°ESolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EHughley Shales — 52.46°N, 2.85°WHughley Shales — 52.53°N, 2.90°WKjørrven — 60.27°N, 10.43°EKjørrven — 60.30°N, 10.55°ESamuelsen Høj — 80.00°N, 22.00°WCock Rig — 55.81°N, 3.36°WBoda Limestone — 60.07°N, 15.18°EBønsnes — 60.06°N, 10.21°EKalvsjø — 60.76°N, 10.69°EWoodland — 55.22°N, 4.88°WNewlands Farm — 55.28°N, 4.74°WWood Burn Grits — 55.25°N, 4.76°WCraighead — 55.27°N, 4.78°WMoyerokan — 67.37°N, 104.10°EBalclatchie — 55.24°N, 4.78°W

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The named rock units Cyphoproetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyphoproetus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cyphoproetus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Cyphoproetus, 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

26 references

Each of the 59 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Cyphoproetus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyphoproetus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kegel 1927)