Proetus osiliensis
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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 most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 433.5 Mya and 428.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Proetus osiliensis 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
2 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 Proetus osiliensis 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 osiliensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Proetus osiliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Atrypa (Atrypa) reticularis1 site
- Brachyprion (Brachyprion) semiglobosa1 site
- Bumastus barriensis1 site
- Calpichitina1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Calymene blumenbachii1 site
- Conochitina1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Dalejina hybrida1 site
- Dolerorthis rustica1 site
- Earlandia giga1 site
- Encrinurus punctatus1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duvalii1 site
- Estonirhynchia1 site
- Favosites desolatus1 site
- Favosites gothlandicus1 site
- Heliolites1 site
- Kockelella ranuliformis1 site
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) purpurea1 site
- Levenea canaliculata1 site
- Neocystiphyllum1 site
- Oriostoma globosum sculptum1 site
- Phaulactis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Proetus osiliensis, 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
2 references- Earliest encrusting calcareous Foraminifera from the Sheinwoodian (lower Silurian) of Saaremaa Island, Estonia1
- Revision der Ostbaltischen Silurichen Trilobiten. Abtheilung IV: Calymmeniden, Proetiden, Bronteiden, Harpediden, Trunicleiden, Remopleuriden und Agnostiden.1
Each of the 2 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 Proetus osiliensis 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 Proetus osiliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proetus osiliensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schmidt 1891)