Ceratonurus

Ceratonurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontopleuridaePBDB
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 41 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesDevonian424–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423.5 Mya381.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Ceratonurus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

12 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

3 formations

Ihandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WHaragan — 34.50°N, 96.50°WLochkow — 49.98°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Ceratonurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratonurus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ceratonurus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

373 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ceratonurus, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 content1

Picture of Ceratonurus

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

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 itOdontopleuridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Prantl and Pribyl 1949