Typhloproetus laevis
No picture of Typhloproetus laevis 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 Typhloproetus laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TyphloproetusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Typhloproetus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Typhloproetus laevis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Typhloproetus laevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Typhloproetus laevis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Typhloproetus laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Chaunoproetus daihuanensis1 site
- Cymaclymenia1 site
- Cymaclymenia striata1 site
- Cyrtoclymenia1 site
- Dianops quizhouensis1 site
- Glatziella1 site
- Imitoceras1 site
- Kosmoclymenia1 site
- Parawocklumeria distorta1 site
- Parawocklumeria paradoxa1 site
- Sporadoceras muensteri1 site
- Wocklumeria sphaeroides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Typhloproetus laevis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Typhloproetus laevis 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 Typhloproetus laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Typhloproetus laevis 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 itTyphloproetus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Xiang 1981