Ceraurinella brevispina
No picture of Ceraurinella brevispina 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 Ceraurinella brevispina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeraurinellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ceraurinella
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 450.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ceraurinella brevispina 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ceraurinella brevispina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceraurinella brevispina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceraurinella brevispina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Bumastoides3 sites
- Ceraurinus3 sites
- Hesperorthis3 sites
- Krausella3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Acanthoparypha goniopyga2 sites
- Ancistrorhyncha2 sites
- Bairdiocypris2 sites
- Borealaspis biformis2 sites
- Borealaspis whittakerensis2 sites
- Calyptaulax2 sites
- Cybeloides2 sites
- Cyphoproetus2 sites
- Dolichoharpes2 sites
- Holtedahlina sulcata2 sites
- Hypodicranotus striatulus2 sites
- Isotelus2 sites
- Lepidocyclus perlamellosa2 sites
- Megamyonia unicostata2 sites
- Nasutimena fluctuosa2 sites
- Nematoporida indet.2 sites
- Oepikella2 sites
- Otarion2 sites
- Plaesiomys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ceraurinella brevispina, 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
2 references- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie2
- Upper Ordovician conodonts, brachiopods, and chronostratigraphy of the Whittaker Formation, southwestern District of Mackenzie, N. W. T., Canada1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Ceraurinella brevispina 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 Ceraurinella brevispina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceraurinella brevispina 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 itCeraurinella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ludvigsen 1979