Ceratreta

No picture of Ceratreta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ceratreta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratretidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 469.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 24 of 25 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences535–533 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–528 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences528–526 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–514 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences497–494 Mya — about 8 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 5 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 3 occurrences490–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences506.5 Mya471.3 Mya540 Mya468 Mya

25 occurrences of Ceratreta on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

25 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

6 formations

Ülgase — 59.43°N, 24.73°EÜlgase — 59.46°N, 24.91°EÜlgase — 59.48°N, 25.02°EÜlgase — 59.48°N, 25.34°EÜlgase — 59.51°N, 25.50°EÜlgase — 59.45°N, 25.67°EÜlgase — 59.34°N, 26.52°EÜlgase — 59.49°N, 25.09°EÜlgase — 59.43°N, 24.99°EAlum Shale — 58.38°N, 14.70°EAlum Shale — 60.98°N, 15.20°EAlum Shale — 58.52°N, 15.45°ESnowy Range — 47.15°N, 110.22°WTourmakeady — 53.69°N, 9.37°WMaardu — 59.34°N, 26.52°ELadoga — 60.14°N, 32.56°E

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The named rock units Ceratreta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratreta and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ceratreta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Ceratreta, 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

Each of the 25 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

Media content0

No picture of Ceratreta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ceratreta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratreta 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 itCeratretidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bell 1941