Ceratiocaris bohemica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratiocarisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
16 occurrences of Ceratiocaris bohemica 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Ceratiocaris bohemica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ceratiocaris bohemica and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ceratiocaris bohemica and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Parakionoceras originale9 sites
- Cardiolinka8 sites
- Praecardium8 sites
- Bivalvia7 sites
- Cephalopoda7 sites
- Orthocycloceras7 sites
- Pterinopecten7 sites
- Scyphocrinites7 sites
- Acutiramus bohemicus6 sites
- Corbuloceras6 sites
- Orthonychia elegans6 sites
- Bolbozoe5 sites
- Joachymia5 sites
- Monograptus5 sites
- Monograptus transgrediens5 sites
- Snoopyia5 sites
- Wurmiella excavata5 sites
- Actinopteria4 sites
- Boucia4 sites
- Dualina4 sites
- Nicollidina remscheidensis4 sites
- Oulodus elegans4 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens4 sites
- Ancyrochitina3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ceratiocaris bohemica, 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
8 references- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia8
- Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies2
- Silurian to Lower Devonian communities of Sardinia1
- Lower Silurian to Lower Devonian communities from the Armorican Massif (western France) and Artois (northern France)1
- Geology of the Barrandian: A Field Trip Guide. Senckenberg-Buchen, Frankfurt1
- Upper Silurian and lowermost Devonian Bivalvia of Bohemian type from south-western Sardinia1
- The Mason Porcus section as reference section for uppermost Silurian-Lower Devonian in SW Sardinia1
- Barrandian1
Each of the 16 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 content1
Picture of Ceratiocaris bohemica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itCeratiocaris through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1853