Ceratopyge forficuloides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratopygePBDB
- 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 most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Ceratopyge forficuloides 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
9 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
- Santa Rosita Formation · Santa Victoria Group8
- Devendeus or Saladillo Formation · Santa Victoria Group1
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The named rock units Ceratopyge forficuloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratopyge forficuloides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceratopyge forficuloides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Asaphellus jujuanus4 sites
- Pyrimetopus pyrifrons4 sites
- Asaphellus catamarcensis3 sites
- Mekynophrys nanna3 sites
- Notopeltis orthometopa3 sites
- Rossaspis rossi3 sites
- Apatokephalus serratus2 sites
- Conophrys minutula2 sites
- Nileus australis2 sites
- Acerocarina1 site
- Bienvillia1 site
- Conophrys pusilla1 site
- Euorthisina nazarenensis1 site
- Galbagnostus1 site
- Parabolinella1 site
- Parabolinella triarthroides1 site
- Rossaspis1 site
- Trinodus jujuyensis1 site
- Trinodus saltaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ceratopyge forficuloides, 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
3 references- Early Ordovician trilobites from the Nazareno area, northwestern Argentina4
- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina4
- New Upper Cambrian-Tremadoc rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from northwestern Argentina: evolutionary trends and early diversification of plectorthoideans in the Andean Gondwana1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Ceratopyge forficuloides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ceratopyge forficuloides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratopyge forficuloides 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 itCeratopyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington and Leanza 1957