Proetus

Proetus is a genus of proetid trilobite found in Silurian-aged marine strata of Europe and Devonian-aged strata of Gondwana.

Proetus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProetinaePBDB
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 least 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 31 of 249 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 145 of 249 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 64 of 249 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 9 of 249 occurrencesCarboniferous461–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–447 Mya — about 17 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 15 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 23 occurrences438–433 Mya — about 11 occurrences433–428 Mya — about 22 occurrences428–424 Mya — about 45 occurrences424–419 Mya — about 38 occurrences419–414 Mya — about 5 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 10 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 4 occurrences405–400 Mya — about 4 occurrences400–395 Mya — about 7 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 8 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 9 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 10 occurrences381–377 Mya — about 4 occurrences377–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454 Mya346.7 Mya461 Mya321 Mya

249 occurrences of Proetus 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

249 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

124 formations

Becscie — 49.40°N, 62.42°WBecscie — 49.80°N, 64.42°WBecscie — 49.82°N, 64.33°WBecscie — 49.61°N, 63.42°WBecscie — 49.61°N, 63.45°WBecscie — 49.74°N, 63.90°WBecscie — 49.38°N, 62.46°WDawson Bay — 51.02°N, 98.68°WDawson Bay — 52.89°N, 101.06°WDawson Bay — 51.60°N, 99.82°WDawson Bay — 51.65°N, 99.81°WDawson Bay — 53.00°N, 101.00°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EBoda Limestone — 60.97°N, 15.15°EBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.33°N, 14.55°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WSkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°ESkala — 49.02°N, 25.80°EVarnitsa — 48.85°N, 26.20°ETrubchin Suite — 48.52°N, 26.32°ETrubchin Suite — 48.00°N, 26.00°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.65°WPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.27°WGazelle — 41.31°N, 122.67°WGazelle — 41.47°N, 122.59°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 45.38°N, 75.60°WLorraine — 45.36°N, 75.35°WJaani — 58.62°N, 22.90°EJaani — 58.57°N, 22.29°EZhusileng — 41.63°N, 102.63°EZhusileng — 41.62°N, 102.65°EZhusileng — 41.65°N, 102.68°EYikewsusu — 41.63°N, 102.63°EWinnica — 50.82°N, 21.33°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WJefferson — 46.41°N, 113.20°WJefferson — 42.50°N, 112.25°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ESaelabonn — 60.17°N, 10.30°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WReservoir — 56.00°N, 3.00°WReservoir — 55.81°N, 3.37°W

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The named rock units Proetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 100 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proetus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Proetus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,624 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 227 sites for Proetus, 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

105 references

Each of the 249 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. 93 further references are not listed. 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

Media content2

Picture of Proetus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProetinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steininger 1831