Ceratopea laurentina
No picture of Ceratopea laurentina 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 laurentina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Ceratopea laurentina 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
5 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
- Romaine Formation3
- Croisaphuill Formation · Durness Group1
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The named rock units Ceratopea laurentina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ceratopea laurentina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceratopea laurentina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Allopiloceras bealachense1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella) whittingtoni1 site
- Bathyurus angelini1 site
- Bisonoceras hornei1 site
- Bolboporites americanus1 site
- Buttsoceras1 site
- Cassinoceras wortheni1 site
- Cleionychia montrealensis1 site
- Curtoceras billingsi1 site
- Ectomaria orientalis1 site
- Eobucania palinurus1 site
- Euchasma blumenbachi1 site
- Euconia etna1 site
- Expandocassinoceras grande1 site
- Fletcheria1 site
- Hebertella1 site
- Holopea1 site
- Isotelus gigas1 site
- Lecanospira compacta1 site
- Liospira americana1 site
- Lonchodomas chaziensis1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Mimella borealis1 site
- Multicostella platys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ceratopea laurentina, 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
3 references- Geology and paleontology of the Mingan Islands, Quebec3
- The geological structure of the north-west Highlands of Scotland1
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna1
Each of the 5 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 laurentina 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 laurentina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratopea laurentina 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 itCeratopea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)