Ceraurus mackenziensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeraurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ceraurus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 800 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 450.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ceraurus mackenziensis 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
1 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 Ceraurus mackenziensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceraurus mackenziensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceraurus mackenziensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Acanthoparypha goniopyga1 site
- Anataphrus1 site
- Ancistrorhyncha1 site
- Aparchites1 site
- Apianurus1 site
- Bairdiocypris1 site
- Bolbopisthia1 site
- Boreadorthis1 site
- Borealaspis biformis1 site
- Borealaspis whittakerensis1 site
- Bumastoides1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Ceratopsis1 site
- Ceraurinella brevispina1 site
- Ceraurinus1 site
- Chasmops1 site
- Cybeloides1 site
- Cyphoproetus1 site
- Denella cumera1 site
- Dicranella1 site
- Dimeropyge1 site
- Diplopsis socialis1 site
- Dolichoharpes1 site
- Escharopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ceraurus mackenziensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Ceraurus mackenziensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ceraurus mackenziensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceraurus mackenziensis 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 itCeraurus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ludvigsen 1979