Decoroproetus evexus

Decoroproetus evexus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DecoroproetusPBDB
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 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.5 Mya445.2 Mya451 Mya442.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Decoroproetus evexus 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

5 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

5 formations

Kalvsjøen — 59.83°N, 10.43°ETommarp — 59.87°N, 10.50°ETommarp — 58.23°N, 15.73°ELoka — 58.57°N, 15.07°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°E

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The named rock units Decoroproetus evexus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Decoroproetus evexus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Decoroproetus evexus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Decoroproetus evexus, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 evexus

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 evexus 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. Owens 1973