Ceratopea unguis

No picture of Ceratopea unguis 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 unguis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 30 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 30 occurrencesOrdovician — about 30 of 30 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487.4 Mya456.7 Mya

30 occurrences of Ceratopea unguis 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

30 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

5 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°WNarwhale Sound — 74.08°N, 23.06°WNarwhale Sound — 74.08°N, 23.02°WCotter — 37.33°N, 89.93°WCotter — 38.22°N, 90.38°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WAguathuna — 48.56°N, 58.73°W

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The named rock units Ceratopea unguis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ceratopea unguis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceratopea unguis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Ceratopea unguis, 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

7 references

Each of the 30 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 Ceratopea unguis 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 unguis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratopea unguis 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. Yochelson and Bridge 1957