Artiopoda - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Alternative spellings: Cornuproetus (Eremiproetus), Proetus (Eremiproetus)
Synonym: Natatoraspis Pribyl 1967
Parent taxon: Eremiproetinae according to V. Bault et al. 2021
See also Alberti 1964, Alberti 1969, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owens 1973, Owens 1973, Sepkoski 2002 and Stocker et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Nagaproetus, Phaetonellus, Tafilaltaspis, Xiphogonium
Subtaxa: Eremiproetus agellus Eremiproetus berberus Eremiproetus cacuminatus Eremiproetus crassirhachis Eremiproetus dufresnoyi Eremiproetus eremita Eremiproetus erfoudanus Eremiproetus ferentarius Eremiproetus helmuti Eremiproetus magnicerviculus Eremiproetus maurulus Eremiproetus meridianomaurus Eremiproetus munitus Eremiproetus natator Eremiproetus notabilis Eremiproetus papilio Eremiproetus subcarinatus Eremiproetus subplanatus Eremiproetus tafilaltanus Eremiproetus tozeri
Type: Proetus dufresnoyi
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of Germany (2 collections)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (1), Czechia (7), Germany (2), Morocco (13), United States (1: Alaska)
• Silurian of Czechia (6), Japan (1)
• Ordovician of Sweden (4)
Total: 39 collections including 58 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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