Ceratocephala

Ceratocephala is a trilobite genus in the family Odontopleuridae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MiraspidinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 52 of 164 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 76 of 164 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 36 of 164 occurrencesDevonian485–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–457 Mya — about 8 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 11 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 9 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 9 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 6 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 9 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 8 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 26 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 11 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 8 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 8 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 4 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 2 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 3 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 4 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya393.47 Mya485 Mya380 Mya

164 occurrences of Ceratocephala 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

164 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

60 formations

Whittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WDelorme — 62.78°N, 125.25°WKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkov — 50.08°N, 14.47°ELochkov — 49.95°N, 14.08°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 62.52°N, 124.78°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.75°WRacine Dolomite — 41.67°N, 88.00°WRacine Dolomite — 43.00°N, 88.00°WRacine Dolomite — 38.97°N, 90.43°WRacine Dolomite — 41.12°N, 88.02°WRacine Dolomite — 42.72°N, 87.78°WRacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°WCape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 75.10°N, 94.00°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 74.10°N, 94.00°WEdinburg — 38.99°N, 78.36°WEdinburg — 38.99°N, 78.35°WEdinburg — 38.84°N, 78.55°WStinchar Limestone — 55.20°N, 4.75°WLochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°ELochkow — 49.97°N, 14.13°ELochkow — 49.98°N, 14.33°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EPozary — 49.52°N, 13.50°EAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.07°WAmerboh — 31.37°N, 4.05°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.71°N, 73.46°WBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 60.98°N, 15.22°EFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°EHopkinton Dolomite — 42.23°N, 91.18°WHopkinton Dolomite — 41.98°N, 90.73°WGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EOranda — 39.00°N, 78.00°WOranda — 38.52°N, 78.89°WHanson Creek — 39.38°N, 116.14°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°W

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The named rock units Ceratocephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratocephala and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ceratocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Ceratocephala, 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

61 references

Each of the 164 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. 49 further references are not listed. 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ceratocephala

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Warder 1838)