Pulcherproetus pulcher

No picture of Pulcherproetus pulcher was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pulcherproetus pulcher, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PulcherproetusPBDB
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 least 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 423 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423 Mya – 422.7 Mya427.2 Mya419.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Pulcherproetus pulcher 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

Torgu — 58.12°N, 22.21°EVarnitsa — 48.85°N, 26.20°E

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

Pulcherproetus pulcher and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pulcherproetus pulcher and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pulcherproetus pulcher, 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

Media content0

No picture of Pulcherproetus pulcher was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pulcherproetus pulcher, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pulcherproetus pulcher 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 itPulcherproetus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nieszkowski 1857)