Ceratopygidae

Cermatops Shergold, 1980, a relative of Ceratopygidae — not Ceratopygidae itself

Not Ceratopygidae. This is Cermatops Shergold, 1980, a relative — both are Ceratopygidae.

via GBIF · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
AsaphoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 454 Mya.

Cambrian — about 652 of 759 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 107 of 759 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–505 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences505–502 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 14 occurrences499–496 Mya — about 65 occurrences496–493 Mya — about 185 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 203 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 147 occurrences488–485 Mya — about 56 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 34 occurrences482–479 Mya — about 28 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 17 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504.5 Mya458.2 Mya540 Mya452 Mya

759 occurrences of Ceratopygidae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

759 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

62 formations

Zhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.05°N, 109.42°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EMachari — 37.31°N, 128.44°EBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°ESiyangshan — 28.85°N, 118.65°ESiyangshan — 28.90°N, 118.50°ESiyangshan — 28.82°N, 118.60°EHuayansi — 28.82°N, 118.60°EHuayansi — 28.90°N, 118.50°EChatsworth — 22.00°S, 140.30°EChatsworth — 21.94°S, 140.33°EChatsworth — 21.95°S, 140.37°ESanta Rosita — 24.79°S, 65.38°WSanta Rosita — 23.00°S, 66.00°WSanta Rosita — 22.50°S, 65.12°WSanta Rosita — 23.57°S, 65.45°WSanta Rosita — 23.75°S, 65.54°WSanta Rosita — 22.18°S, 65.26°WSanta Rosita — 24.50°S, 65.75°WSanta Rosita — 22.21°S, 64.89°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WSanta Rosita — 22.66°S, 65.17°WKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EOgon'or — 71.28°N, 127.63°EModder River Siltstone — 42.42°S, 145.35°EVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.75°WVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.69°WTangcun — 30.67°N, 118.18°ETangcun — 30.63°N, 118.20°ESesong — 37.18°N, 128.78°ELampazar — 23.88°S, 65.71°WLampazar — 23.62°S, 65.69°WChopko — 68.92°N, 88.67°ESandu — 25.99°N, 107.89°EYinchupu — 28.90°N, 118.52°EYinchupu — 28.81°N, 118.62°EBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°EBjorkasholmen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ESinging Creek — 43.00°S, 147.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYinzhupu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EYinzhupu — 30.00°N, 120.00°EGeorgina Limestone — 23.05°S, 138.95°EShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°W

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The named rock units Ceratopygidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratopygidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ceratopygidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

704 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 173 sites for Ceratopygidae, 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

83 references

Each of the 759 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. 71 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 Cermatops Shergold, 1980

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ceratopygidae 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 itAsaphoidea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1913