Craniops subtruncata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CraniopsPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Craniopsida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Craniopsida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Craniopsida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Craniata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Craniata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Craniops subtruncata 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
2 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
- Martinsburg Formation1
- Nicolet River Formation · Lorraine Group1
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The named rock units Craniops subtruncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Craniops subtruncata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Craniops subtruncata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Crinoidea2 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus2 sites
- ? Kinocera sp.1 site
- <conotretoid>1 site
- Achatella achates1 site
- Acidaspis1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Ateleocystites huxleyi1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Byssonychia vera1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Catazyga headi1 site
- Ceratopsis chambersi1 site
- Cincinnaticrinus1 site
- Cincinnetina meeki1 site
- Cincinnetina multisecta1 site
- Climacograptus typicalis1 site
- Colpomya faba1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cryptolithus tessellatus1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cuneamya neglecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Craniops subtruncata, 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- Upper Ordovician tempestites from Swatara Gap, Pennsylvania: depositional processes affecting the sediments and paleoecology of the fossil faunas1
- Macroinvertebrate teilzones and episodic faunal changes from an Upper Ordovician flysch in Quebec1
Each of the 2 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 Craniops subtruncata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Craniops subtruncata, 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 itCraniops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)