Proactis wenlockensis
No picture of Proactis wenlockensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Proactis wenlockensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProactisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Proactis wenlockensis 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
1 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.
Proactis wenlockensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Proactis wenlockensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aptilechinus1 site
- Crepidosoma wenlocki1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Dimerocrinites1 site
- Furcaster leptosoma1 site
- Lepyriactis nudus1 site
- Macrostylocrinus1 site
- Myelodactylus1 site
- Pentagonocyclicus lamonti1 site
- Pisocrinus campana1 site
- Ptychocrinus1 site
- Schuchertia wenlocki1 site
- Taeniactis wenlocki1 site
- Urasterella gutterfordensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Proactis wenlockensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 reference- Aspects of crinoid palaeontology of the North Esk Inlier, Scotland (Silurian, Llandovery, Telychian)1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Proactis wenlockensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Proactis wenlockensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proactis wenlockensis 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 itProactis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1914