Ceratopea

Ceratopea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphistomatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 385.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 142 occurrencesOrdovician — about 141 of 142 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 142 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 142 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 5 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 22 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 29 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 32 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 37 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 9 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483.4 Mya387.95 Mya489 Mya384 Mya

142 occurrences of Ceratopea 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

142 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

36 formations

Smithville — 33.25°N, 92.57°WSmithville — 37.33°N, 89.90°WSmithville — 37.40°N, 89.92°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 36.11°N, 91.30°WCatoche — 48.55°N, 59.25°WCatoche — 48.51°N, 59.22°WCatoche — 50.76°N, 57.22°WCatoche — 50.37°N, 57.53°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WAntelope Valley — 38.96°N, 116.49°WAntelope Valley — 39.19°N, 116.38°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 39.20°N, 116.25°WCroisaphuill — 58.62°N, 4.87°WCroisaphuill — 58.52°N, 4.80°WCroisaphuill — 58.60°N, 4.83°WTheodosia — 36.70°N, 93.17°WTheodosia — 37.30°N, 89.97°WTheodosia — 36.60°N, 92.43°WTheodosia — 36.68°N, 93.87°WCotter — 38.22°N, 90.38°WCotter — 37.33°N, 89.93°WCotter — 35.93°N, 83.73°WNarwhale Sound — 74.08°N, 23.06°WNarwhale Sound — 74.08°N, 23.02°WBoat Harbour — 48.54°N, 58.74°WBoat Harbour — 50.75°N, 57.17°WBoat Harbour — 50.71°N, 57.33°WBeauharnois — 45.29°N, 74.13°WBeauharnois — 45.25°N, 74.18°WOxford — 45.22°N, 75.68°WRomaine — 50.30°N, 64.05°WShakopee — 45.05°N, 92.80°WShakopee — 44.50°N, 92.90°WChepultepec — 36.73°N, 81.77°WChepultepec — 38.80°N, 78.55°WChepultepec — 35.07°N, 85.58°WNewala — 34.54°N, 85.35°WNigerbreen Limestone — 76.95°N, 15.98°ENigerbreen Limestone — 76.94°N, 16.02°EFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.42°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.30°WRockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°WCape Weber — 73.78°N, 24.63°WCape Weber — 73.53°N, 24.71°WRich Fountain — 38.23°N, 90.57°WRich Fountain — 36.65°N, 92.40°WHorn Plateau — 62.17°N, 117.83°WSurvey Peak — 51.18°N, 115.57°WTelsitna — 63.92°N, 153.66°W

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The named rock units Ceratopea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratopea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceratopea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Ceratopea, 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

47 references

Each of the 142 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. 35 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 Ceratopea

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

No 3D scan of Ceratopea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRaphistomatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1911