Neoproetus indicus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeoproetusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 7.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
5 occurrences of Neoproetus indicus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Neoproetus indicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neoproetus indicus and its relatives
PermianWhere Neoproetus indicus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Crinoidea2 sites
- Akmilleria transitoria1 site
- Almites gracilis1 site
- Amplexus coralloides1 site
- Aricoceras cancellatum1 site
- Artinskia timorensis1 site
- Atomodesma mytiloides1 site
- Aulopora timorica1 site
- Bamyaniceras simile1 site
- Caneyella1 site
- Capulus pretiosus1 site
- Carcinophyllum wichmanni1 site
- Crassispirifer broilii1 site
- Crassispirifer timorensis1 site
- Cyclonema bitauniensis1 site
- Eothinites pseudomeneghinii1 site
- Epadrianites beyrichi1 site
- Eumedlicottia subprimas1 site
- Euomphalus catilliformis1 site
- Euomphalus nodocarinatus1 site
- Gertholites jabiensis1 site
- Grammysiidae1 site
- Iranaspidion1 site
- Metalegoceras australe1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Neoproetus indicus, 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- Trilobiten aus der Dyas von Timor und Letti4
- Trilobites du Permien supérieur (Murghabien/Midien) du Nord de l'Oman1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Neoproetus indicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itNeoproetus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tesch 1923