Proceratopyge fuyangensis

No picture of Proceratopyge fuyangensis 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 Proceratopyge fuyangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProceratopygePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ceratopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 500.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCambrian501–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501 Mya496.5 Mya

14 occurrences of Proceratopyge fuyangensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

14 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

1 formation

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°E

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The named rock units Proceratopyge fuyangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Proceratopyge fuyangensis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Proceratopyge fuyangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Proceratopyge fuyangensis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 14 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 Proceratopyge fuyangensis 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 Proceratopyge fuyangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Proceratopyge fuyangensis 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 itProceratopyge through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu and Lin 1987