Ceraurinus daedalus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeraurinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ceraurinus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ceraurinus daedalus 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
- Whittaker Formation6
- Irene Bay Formation · Cornwallis Group1
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The named rock units Ceraurinus daedalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceraurinus daedalus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceraurinus daedalus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Ceraurus7 sites
- Dinorthis7 sites
- Streptelasma7 sites
- Acanthoparypha6 sites
- Anataphrus6 sites
- Borealaspis numitor6 sites
- Calyptaulax6 sites
- Catenipora6 sites
- Ceratopsis6 sites
- Ceraurinella6 sites
- Cybeloides6 sites
- Cyclospira6 sites
- Diceromyonia6 sites
- Dicranella6 sites
- Dimeropyge6 sites
- Hemiarges6 sites
- Holia6 sites
- Hypodicranotus6 sites
- Krausella6 sites
- Lepidocyclus6 sites
- Phragmolites6 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe6 sites
- Strophomena6 sites
- Tetradella6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ceraurinus daedalus, 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- Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains6
- Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ceraurinus daedalus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceraurinus daedalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCeraurinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cox 1933)