Proetus concinnus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProetusPBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 431.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 433.5 Mya to 425 Mya.
7 occurrences of Proetus concinnus 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
7 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
5 formations
- Jaani Formation2
- Much Wenlock Limestone Formation1
- Demshin Subsuite Formation1
- Bagovitsa Formation1
- Elton Formation1
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The named rock units Proetus concinnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proetus concinnus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Proetus concinnus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Calymene blumenbachii4 sites
- Encrinurus punctatus4 sites
- Poleumita discors3 sites
- Thecia3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Beyrichia2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Harpidella2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Phaulactis2 sites
- Syringaxon2 sites
- Ulrichospira lloydii2 sites
- Warburgella stokesii2 sites
- Acanthopyge1 site
- Acaste1 site
- Acaste downingiae1 site
- Acervularia1 site
- Aetholicotoxotis1 site
- Amphistrophia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Proetus concinnus, 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
7 references- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian1
- Trilobite assemblages of the North Atlantic Region1
- Locality 5:3 Paramaja Cliff1
- Locality 6:1 Panga Cliff1
- British Ordovician and Silurian Proetidae (Trilobita)1
- Die Fauna der silurischen Ablagerungen des Gourvernements Podolien)1
Each of the 7 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
Media content1
Picture of Proetus concinnus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Proetus concinnus 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 itProetus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1827)