Ceratopea sinclairensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratopeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ceratopea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ceratopea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Ceratopea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 481.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ceratopea sinclairensis 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
7 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
2 formations
- Deadwood Formation5
- Survey Peak Formation · McKay Group1
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The named rock units Ceratopea sinclairensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ceratopea sinclairensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceratopea sinclairensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Eocrinoidea5 sites
- Lecanospira4 sites
- Syntrophina4 sites
- Hystricurus3 sites
- Nanorthis putilla3 sites
- Bucanella nana2 sites
- Lloydia (Evansaspis) formosa2 sites
- Symphysurina2 sites
- Acrotreta1 site
- Amechilus1 site
- Apheoorthis ocha1 site
- Clelandia1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Euconia conicus1 site
- Glabretina1 site
- Gonioteloides1 site
- Hyperbolochilus1 site
- Hystricurus crassilimbatus1 site
- Kainella1 site
- Leiostegium1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Lingulella ibicus1 site
- Lloydia (Leiostegium)1 site
- Macluritella mediosulcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ceratopea sinclairensis, 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
3 references- Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunas from the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota3
- Lower Ordovician (Zone D) faunules from the Williston Basin, Montana2
- The Ordovician fossils from the McKay group in British Columbia, western Canada, with a note on the early Ordovician palaeogeography2
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Ceratopea sinclairensis 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 Ceratopea sinclairensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratopea sinclairensis 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 itCeratopea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kobayashi 1955)