Prosoptychus rotunda

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProsoptychusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonian427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425 Mya413.02 Mya427.2 Mya410.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Prosoptychus rotunda 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

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

Tabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.39°EKopanina — 49.92°N, 14.10°E

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

Prosoptychus rotunda and its relatives

Silurian

Where Prosoptychus rotunda and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prosoptychus rotunda, 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

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

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Prosoptychus rotunda 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 itProsoptychus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1903)