Catochia ornata
No picture of Catochia ornata 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 Catochia ornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CatochiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Catochia ornata 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
13 occurrences- 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
3 formations
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group11
- Kirtonryggen Formation1
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group1
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The named rock units Catochia ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Catochia ornata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Catochia ornata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Petigurus nero13 sites
- Benthamaspis conica12 sites
- Bolbocephalus convexus12 sites
- Bathyurellus abruptus10 sites
- Ischyrotoma anataphra10 sites
- Jeffersonia jenni10 sites
- Uromystrum affine10 sites
- Isoteloides peri9 sites
- Jeffersonia timon8 sites
- Punka flabelliformis8 sites
- Strigigenalis caudata7 sites
- Strotactinus insularis7 sites
- Benthamaspis gibberula6 sites
- Ischyrotoma parallela5 sites
- Isoteloides canalis5 sites
- Bathyurellus platypus4 sites
- Illaenus4 sites
- Petigurus4 sites
- Catochia glabra3 sites
- Euchasma blumenbachi3 sites
- Grinnellaspis newfoundlandensis3 sites
- Ischyrotoma3 sites
- Jeffersonia3 sites
- Maclurites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Catochia ornata, 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
9 references- Early Ordovician trilobite faunas of the Boat Harbour and Catoche Formations (St. George Group) in the Boat-Harbour-Cape Norman area, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland3
- The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland2
- Trilobite and Conodont Biostratigraphy of the St. George Group, Eddies Cove west area, Western Newfoundland2
- Lower Ordovician trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen1
- Macropaleontological investigation of the Upper St. George Group, West Isthmus Bay to East Bay section, Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland1
- Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland1
- Cambrian-Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland1
- Preliminary Ordovician trilobite stratigraphy of the Eddies Cove West-Port au Choix area, western Newfoundland1
- Early Ordovician trilobites from the Catoche Formation (St. George Group), western Newfoundland1
Each of the 13 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.
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No picture of Catochia ornata 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 Catochia ornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Catochia ornata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCatochia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1979