Ceratopyge

Ceratopyge

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician — about 25 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–477 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482.9 Mya477.1 Mya487.4 Mya467.5 Mya

25 occurrences of Ceratopyge 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

25 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

13 formations

Santa Rosita — 22.50°S, 65.12°WSanta Rosita — 24.50°S, 65.75°WSanta Rosita — 22.21°S, 64.89°WBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°EBjorkasholmen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°EAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EXiliangsi — 32.00°N, 106.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°ESanted — 41.00°N, 1.00°WDevendeus or Saladillo — 24.54°S, 65.74°WAlum — 59.14°N, 11.18°EBjørkåsholmen — 59.97°N, 9.99°EBjørkasholmen — 59.79°N, 10.50°EBjorkasholmen or Tøyen — 60.91°N, 10.70°EMilina — 49.77°N, 13.80°E

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The named rock units Ceratopyge 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.

Ceratopyge and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceratopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Ceratopyge, 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

15 references

Each of the 25 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Ceratopyge

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
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 itCeratopygidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847