Decoroproetus reussi

Dalman Johan Wilhelm · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
6 occurrences of Decoroproetus reussi 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Decoroproetus reussi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Decoroproetus reussi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Decoroproetus reussi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Ananaspis fecunda5 sites
- Scharyia micropyga4 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Interproetus intermedius3 sites
- Araspirifer2 sites
- Atrypina2 sites
- Atrypoidea2 sites
- Bleshidium2 sites
- Bohemoharpes (Unguloharpes) ungula2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Coniproetus ryckholti2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtia2 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba2 sites
- Harpidella (Harpidella)2 sites
- Havlicekia2 sites
- Interproetus intermedius ovalifrons2 sites
- Interproetus venustus2 sites
- Ktenoura2 sites
- Leonaspis leonhardi2 sites
- Leptaena provellerosa2 sites
- Otarion diffractum2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Decoroproetus reussi, 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
3 references- Bohemian Silurian and Devonian Proetidae (Trilobita)4
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia1
Each of the 6 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
Media content1

Picture of Decoroproetus reussi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dalman Johan Wilhelm
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Decoroproetus reussi 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 itDecoroproetus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)