Ceratopea canadensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratopeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ceratopea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ceratopea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Ceratopea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 481.7 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
18 occurrences of Ceratopea canadensis 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
18 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
8 formations
- Croisaphuill Formation · Durness Group4
- Beauharnois Formation · Beekmantown Group3
- Oxford Formation3
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group3
- Fort Ann Formation2
- Shakopee Formation1
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The named rock units Ceratopea canadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratopea canadensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceratopea canadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Ribeiria calcifera6 sites
- Cassinoceras wortheni5 sites
- Euchasma blumenbachi5 sites
- Bolbocephalus convexus4 sites
- Hormotoma artemesia4 sites
- Isoteloides peri4 sites
- Lecanospira compacta4 sites
- Archinacella simplex3 sites
- Jeffersonia jenni3 sites
- Jeffersonia timon3 sites
- Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracillima3 sites
- Peruniscus macer3 sites
- Petigurus nero3 sites
- Protocycloceras lamarcki3 sites
- Strigigenalis caudata3 sites
- Teiichispira affinis3 sites
- Benthamaspis2 sites
- Bridgeites disjuncta2 sites
- Calathium2 sites
- Ceratopea numeria2 sites
- Eotomaria2 sites
- Euconia etna2 sites
- Finkelnburgia cullisoni2 sites
- Hystricurus conicus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ceratopea canadensis, 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
10 references- The geological structure of the north-west Highlands of Scotland4
- Fauna of the lower Beauharnois Formation (Beekmantown Group, Lower Ordovician), Grand île, Quebec3
- Taphonomy and taxonomy of the early Ordovician gastropod Ceratopea canadensis (Billings), 18653
- The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Macropaleontological investigation of the Upper St. George Group, West Isthmus Bay to East Bay section, Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland1
- The upper St. George Group, western Port au Port Penensula: lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, depositional environments and regional implications1
- Part II - Fossils from the Smith Basin Limestone of the Fort Ann Region New York1
- Mollusca from the Shakopee Dolomite (Ordovician) at Stillwater Minnesota1
- Observations on some imperfectly known fossils from the Calciferous sandrock of Lake Champlain, and descriptions of several new forms1
Each of the 18 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
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No picture of Ceratopea canadensis 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 Ceratopea canadensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratopea canadensis 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 itCeratopea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)