Cyphoproetus semidepressus
No picture of Cyphoproetus semidepressus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Cyphoproetus semidepressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyphoproetusPBDB
- 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 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 438.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cyphoproetus semidepressus 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Cyphoproetus semidepressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyphoproetus semidepressus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyphoproetus semidepressus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Anacaenaspis1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Aulacopleura1 site
- Balizoma1 site
- Bohemoharpes naumanni1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Chitinizoa indet.1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Dendroidea1 site
- Diacalymene1 site
- Dicranopeltis imperfecta1 site
- Dudleyaspis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Graptoloidea1 site
- Hadromeros1 site
- Hyolitha1 site
- Interproteus persam1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyphoproetus semidepressus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cyphoproetus semidepressus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cyphoproetus semidepressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyphoproetus semidepressus 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 itCyphoproetus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Šnajdr 1975