Cyphoproetus svartoensis
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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 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cyphoproetus svartoensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cyphoproetus svartoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyphoproetus svartoensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyphoproetus svartoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Actinoceras insulaenigrae1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Amphilichas dalecarlicus1 site
- Armenoceras holtedahli1 site
- Atractopyge confusa1 site
- Billingsites deformis1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cyclendoceras dubium1 site
- Danoceras breve1 site
- Diestoceras stormeri1 site
- Discoceras antiquissima1 site
- Erratencrinurus (Celtencrinurus) kiaeri1 site
- Erratencrinurus (Erratencrinurus) brutoni1 site
- Hibbertia inghami1 site
- Illaenus (Parillaenus) dalecarlicus1 site
- Illaenus linnarssoni1 site
- Lichas1 site
- Proconchidium munsteri1 site
- Remopleurides nikolaiseni1 site
- Richardsonoceras sinuososeptatum1 site
- Ringoceras praecurvum1 site
- Spyroceras clathratoannulatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyphoproetus svartoensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Cyphoproetus svartoensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyphoproetus svartoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1981