Protopresbynileus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 481.7 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
29 occurrences of Protopresbynileus 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
29 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- 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
9 formations
- Fillmore Limestone Formation10
- Ninemile Formation · Pogonip Group5
- Goodwin Formation · Pogonip Group5
- Garden City Formation2
- Lashkarak Formation1
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Protopresbynileus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protopresbynileus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protopresbynileus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Protopliomerella contracta7 sites
- Ampyx6 sites
- Benthamaspis4 sites
- Kirkella fillmorensis4 sites
- Psalikilus4 sites
- Carolinites3 sites
- Geragnostus3 sites
- Lachnostoma3 sites
- Licnocephala cavigladius3 sites
- Megistaspis3 sites
- Psalikilus paraspinosum3 sites
- Agnostida2 sites
- Apatokephalus2 sites
- Asaphellus2 sites
- Aulacoparia2 sites
- Aulacoparia (Aulacoparia) venta2 sites
- Bolbocephalus2 sites
- Dimeropygiella2 sites
- Eorobergia2 sites
- Gladiatoria crowei2 sites
- Glaphurina2 sites
- Leiostegium goodwinensis2 sites
- Licnocephala2 sites
- Licnocephala bicornuta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Protopresbynileus, 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
10 references- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea9
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada5
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California4
- Trilobite biostratigraphy and revised bases of the Tulean and Blackhillsian Stages of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, western United States3
- Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective2
- Zonation and correlation of Canadian and Early Mohawkian series2
- Trilobites from the Al Rose Formation (Lower Ordovician, Inyo Mountains, California)—faunas marginal to the Great Basin1
- Ordovician Trilobites from Iran1
- Trilobites from the Base of the Type Whiterockian (Middle Ordovician) in Nevada1
- The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. III. Remaining trilobites of the Valhallfonna Formation1
Each of the 29 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 Protopresbynileus 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 Protopresbynileus, 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 itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hintze 1954)