Praematuratropis ovatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PraematuratropisPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Praematuratropis ovatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
- Marcellus Formation · Hamilton Group4
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The named rock units Praematuratropis ovatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Praematuratropis ovatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Praematuratropis ovatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Calvibembexia sulcomarginata4 sites
- Cyrtonella mitella4 sites
- Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae4 sites
- Retispira leda4 sites
- Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata3 sites
- Balbiniconcha hebe2 sites
- Dictyotomaria capillaria2 sites
- Gosseletia triquetra2 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus2 sites
- Nuculoidea2 sites
- Palaeoneilo filosa2 sites
- Paracyclas2 sites
- Platyceras erectum2 sites
- Ptychodesma2 sites
- Ruedemannia trilix2 sites
- Barynema lirata1 site
- Catazone nevadana1 site
- Crenistriella rotalinea1 site
- Eoangyomphalus peneglabra1 site
- Grammysioidea1 site
- Modiomorpha concentrica1 site
- Modiomorpha mytiloides1 site
- Mourlonia subzona1 site
- Murchisonia micula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Praematuratropis ovatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Praematuratropis ovatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Praematuratropis ovatus 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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What may have been alongside itPraematuratropis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rollins et al. 1971