Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratocephalaPBDB
- 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 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
11 occurrences of Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) 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
11 occurrences- Ordovician27%
- Silurian73%
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
6 formations
- Delorme Formation5
- Edinburg Formation2
- Restevo Subsuite Formation1
- Whittaker Formation1
- Tourmakeady Formation1
- Woodland Formation1
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The named rock units Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
238 taxa- Leonaspis7 sites
- Deiphon5 sites
- Acidaspis4 sites
- Borealarges variabilis4 sites
- Diacalymene gabrielsi4 sites
- Dicranogmus lepidus4 sites
- Dicranopeltis4 sites
- Dudleyaspis4 sites
- Hadromeros4 sites
- Otarion huddyi4 sites
- Radiaspis4 sites
- Sphaerexochus dimorphus4 sites
- Struszia4 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) blodgetti3 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) variabilis3 sites
- Atrypoidea latilingulata3 sites
- Borealarges renodis3 sites
- Borealarges tuckerae3 sites
- Calymene polgari3 sites
- Clorinda parvolinguifera3 sites
- Contracheirurus3 sites
- Cymbidium kirki3 sites
- Cyrtia alatiformis3 sites
- Diacanthaspis (Diacanthaspis)3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina), 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
5 references- Silicified Silurian odontopleurid trilobites from the Mackenzie Mountains6
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: the Odontopleuridae2
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Ordovician trilobites from the Tourmakeady Limestone, western Ireland1
- Scottish Silurian trilobites1
Each of the 11 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) 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 Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) 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 itCeratocephala through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whittington 1956)