Ceratocephala rarispina

Ceratocephala rarispina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratocephalaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 453.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Ceratocephala rarispina 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

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

Oranda — 38.52°N, 78.89°W

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

Ceratocephala rarispina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceratocephala rarispina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ceratocephala rarispina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ceratocephala rarispina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ceratocephala rarispina 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 itCeratocephala through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittington 1956