Ceratopsis

Ceratopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetradellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 78 of 78 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 78 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 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 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 10 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 10 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 11 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459.3 Mya449.6 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

78 occurrences of Ceratopsis 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

78 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

29 formations

Whittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.68°N, 13.47°ELiben — 49.83°N, 13.83°EDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 59.95°N, 14.00°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WLexington Ls — 37.65°N, 84.77°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WKope — 39.11°N, 84.49°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WFort Atkinson Limestone — 42.00°N, 94.00°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WPont-de-Caen — 49.00°N, 1.00°WClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington — 38.17°N, 84.83°WCorryville — 39.13°N, 84.53°W

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The named rock units Ceratopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratopsis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceratopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

915 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Ceratopsis, 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

19 references

Each of the 78 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. 7 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 Ceratopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceratopsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1894