Ceraurinus icarus

Ceraurinus icarus

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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 least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.9 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 30 of 31 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 31 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.9 Mya449.5 Mya458.7 Mya432.4 Mya

31 occurrences of Ceraurinus icarus 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

31 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

15 formations

Mangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.30°N, 92.12°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.79°N, 84.90°WVauréal — 49.67°N, 63.00°WDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EDolbor — 62.15°N, 91.43°EGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.01°EGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.34°EArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFremont — 38.00°N, 105.00°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WHanson Creek — 39.00°N, 116.00°WPabos — 48.53°N, 64.29°W

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

Ceraurinus icarus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceraurinus icarus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

359 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Ceraurinus icarus, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Ceraurinus icarus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Ceraurinus icarus · KU:KUMIP:341608

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 itCeraurinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1860)