Prokopius sculptus
No picture of Prokopius sculptus 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 Prokopius sculptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProkopiusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.7 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prokopius sculptus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Prokopius sculptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prokopius sculptus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Prokopius sculptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Ferrogyra antiqua3 sites
- Aristocystites bohemicus2 sites
- Cyclopyge2 sites
- Dalmanitina2 sites
- Echinosphaerites2 sites
- Fungocystites rarissimus2 sites
- Fungocystites solitarius2 sites
- Gelidorthis2 sites
- Hirnantia transgrediens2 sites
- Marrolithus2 sites
- Primaspis (Primaspis)2 sites
- Prionocheilus pulchra2 sites
- Rostricellula2 sites
- Selenopeltis buchi2 sites
- Stenopareia2 sites
- Actinopeltis completa1 site
- Actinopeltis globosa1 site
- Aegiromena aquila1 site
- Anatifopsis bohemica1 site
- Antispira ferrigena1 site
- Archaeoconularia1 site
- Archaeoconularia insignis1 site
- Aristocystites subcylindricus1 site
- Atrypa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prokopius sculptus, 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- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Prokopius, a new name for “Hippocystis sculptus” Prokop, 1965, and the status of the genus Hippocystis Bather, 1919 (Echinodermata; Diploporita)1
- Classes des Echinodermes, sec. 1, Ordre des Cystidées1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Prokopius sculptus 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 Prokopius sculptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prokopius sculptus 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 itProkopius through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1887)