Ceratiocaris pusilla
No picture of Ceratiocaris pusilla 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 Ceratiocaris pusilla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratiocarisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
2 occurrences of Ceratiocaris pusilla on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
- Cunningham Creek Formation · Mascarene Group1
- Brandon Bridge Formation1
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The named rock units Ceratiocaris pusilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratiocaris pusilla and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ceratiocaris pusilla and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Conodonta2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Acheronauta stimulapis1 site
- Acutiramus1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Aphrodita indet.1 site
- Arctinurus1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Ceratiocaris macroura1 site
- Ceratiocaris papilio1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Cheloniellida1 site
- Chordata1 site
- Concavicarida1 site
- Conularia manni1 site
- Conularia niagarensis1 site
- Conulariida1 site
- Ctenopleuron1 site
- Cyathaspis acadica1 site
- Cycloneuralia1 site
- Dalmanitidae1 site
- Dendroidea1 site
- Desmograptus1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ceratiocaris pusilla, 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- Ceratiocaris from the Silurian Waukesha Biota, Wisconsin1
- A partial articulated acanthodian from the Silurian of New Brunswick, Canada1
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 Ceratiocaris pusilla 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 Ceratiocaris pusilla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratiocaris pusilla 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 itCeratiocaris through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1889)