Proricephalus

No picture of Proricephalus 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 Proricephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychaspididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ptychaspididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 488.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCambrian494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494 Mya488.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Proricephalus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

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

2 formations

Mistaya — 51.50°N, 116.20°WMistaya — 52.23°N, 117.23°WBison Creek — 51.50°N, 116.20°W

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The named rock units Proricephalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Proricephalus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Proricephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proricephalus, 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Proricephalus 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 Proricephalus, 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 itPtychaspididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westrop 1986