Decoroproetus

Decoroproetus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TropidocoryphinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 470.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 120 of 195 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 68 of 195 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 195 occurrencesDevonian472–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 8 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 24 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 35 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 29 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 14 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 9 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 9 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 4 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 20 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 19 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 8 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya413.02 Mya472 Mya381 Mya

195 occurrences of Decoroproetus 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

195 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

76 formations

Motol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 50.05°N, 14.37°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.32°EMotol — 50.00°N, 14.22°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.13°EBoda Limestone — 60.17°N, 14.70°EBoda Limestone — 61.02°N, 15.22°EBoda Limestone — 60.97°N, 15.13°EBoda Limestone — 61.33°N, 14.55°EBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°ELexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.34°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.87°N, 84.63°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WBalclatchie — 55.22°N, 4.85°WBalclatchie — 54.84°N, 4.05°WBalclatchie — 55.17°N, 4.87°WBalclatchie — 55.31°N, 4.80°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.12°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.63°WJupiter — 49.20°N, 62.22°WJupiter — 49.15°N, 62.20°WJupiter — 49.14°N, 62.36°WJupiter — 49.43°N, 63.12°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.16°WSolvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.17°ESolvang — 59.84°N, 10.54°ESolvang — 58.45°N, 8.76°ESolvang — 60.13°N, 10.28°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.18°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.90°N, 14.10°EFuruberget — 60.37°N, 10.42°EFuruberget — 60.81°N, 11.02°EFuruberget — 60.32°N, 10.55°EFuruberget — 60.34°N, 10.49°EClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WClays Ferry — 37.88°N, 84.34°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WEdinburg — 37.74°N, 79.51°WKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.04°N, 14.41°ERacine Dolomite — 41.12°N, 88.02°WRacine Dolomite — 42.72°N, 87.78°WRacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°WFjäcka — 60.88°N, 15.10°EFjäcka — 60.92°N, 15.15°EFjäcka — 61.07°N, 15.17°ENakkholmen — 59.84°N, 10.54°ENakkholmen — 60.08°N, 10.20°EColdwell — 54.37°N, 2.47°WGorayivskaya — 48.57°N, 27.03°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°EArnestad — 60.00°N, 11.00°EArnestad — 61.33°N, 8.80°ELochkov — 50.08°N, 14.47°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°EClarita — 34.60°N, 96.42°WAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°W

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The named rock units Decoroproetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Decoroproetus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Decoroproetus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,984 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 167 sites for Decoroproetus, 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

64 references

Each of the 195 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. 52 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 Decoroproetus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Decoroproetus 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. Pribyl 1946