Proetus volcovcyanus
No picture of Proetus volcovcyanus 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 volcovcyanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Proetus volcovcyanus 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Proetus volcovcyanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proetus volcovcyanus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Proetus volcovcyanus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Atrypa3 sites
- Dayia3 sites
- Isorthis3 sites
- Acastella2 sites
- Aphyllum2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Delthyris2 sites
- Euconochitina2 sites
- Frostiella2 sites
- Hebellum2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Tryplasma2 sites
- Acaste1 site
- Acastella spinosa1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Coniproetus dnestrovianus1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dnestrina1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
- Gotlandochitina1 site
- Heliolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proetus volcovcyanus, 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 referencesEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Proetus volcovcyanus 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 volcovcyanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proetus volcovcyanus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Balashova 1968