Proetus scalicus
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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 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Proetus scalicus 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
5 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
4 formations
- Trubchin Suite Formation2
- Varnitsa Formation1
- Zvenigorod suite Formation1
- Skala Formation · Rashkov Beds Group1
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The named rock units Proetus scalicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proetus scalicus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Proetus scalicus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Delthyris4 sites
- Mesosolenia4 sites
- Holmophyllum3 sites
- Protochonetes3 sites
- Syringopora3 sites
- Tryplasma3 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
- Dayia2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Favosites forbesi2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Mesofavosites2 sites
- Proetus kuressaarensis2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Acaste1 site
- Acastella1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Aphyllum1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Collarothyris canaliculata1 site
- Coniproetus dnestrovianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Proetus scalicus, 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
3 references- Animal and plant communities of Podolia3
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species1
- High-energy sedimentary events in lagoonal successions of the Upper Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine1
Each of the 5 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 scalicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proetus scalicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Balashova 1968