Prionopeltis unica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionopeltisPBDB
- 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 most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Prionopeltis unica 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
5 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Prionopeltis unica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prionopeltis unica and its relatives
SilurianWhere Prionopeltis unica and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Cadudium4 sites
- Crotalocephalus4 sites
- Decoropugnax4 sites
- Phaetonides striatus4 sites
- Bleshidium3 sites
- Gracianella graciosa3 sites
- Radiaspis3 sites
- Scharyia nympha3 sites
- Septatrypa3 sites
- Atrypoidea2 sites
- Balizoma2 sites
- Bohemoharpes2 sites
- Cardiolinka2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Cooksonia2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Encrinuraspis2 sites
- Eremiproetus2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Linochitina2 sites
- Mirochilina2 sites
- Monograptus2 sites
- Neocolonograptus parultimus2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Prionopeltis unica, 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
4 references- Ecostratigraphy of Silurian trilobite assemblages of the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia2
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia1
- Pridoli--the fourth subdivision of the Silurian1
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
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No picture of Prionopeltis unica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prionopeltis unica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionopeltis unica 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 itPrionopeltis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Šnajdr 1976