Interproetus

Interproetus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
CornuproetinaePBDB
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 least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 37 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 35 of 37 occurrencesSilurian452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 9 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 9 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 4 occurrences450.2 Mya425 Mya451.6 Mya422.1 Mya

37 occurrences of Interproetus 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

37 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

8 formations

Kopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.07°EKopanina — 49.90°N, 14.10°EKopanina — 50.38°N, 13.84°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.13°ECape Phillips — 75.10°N, 94.00°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°WChaltash — 40.41°N, 66.45°ELeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WShoul Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WFukata — 33.53°N, 133.22°E

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The named rock units Interproetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Interproetus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Interproetus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

373 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Interproetus, 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

13 references

Each of the 37 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. 1 further reference is 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 Interproetus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCornuproetinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Snajdr 1977