Ceraurinella

Ceraurinella is an extinct genus of trilobite in the family Cheiruridae. There are about 19 described species in Ceraurinella.

Ceraurinella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 141 occurrencesOrdovician — about 141 of 141 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 141 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 7 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 7 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 8 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 8 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 8 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 8 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 9 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 11 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 11 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 11 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 10 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 13 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya448.8 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

141 occurrences of Ceraurinella 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

141 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

50 formations

Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEsbataottine — 62.52°N, 124.78°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.75°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.45°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.59°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.92°WMingan — 50.21°N, 64.13°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.75°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.34°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WWhittaker — 62.50°N, 125.25°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.71°N, 73.46°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WEdinburg — 38.99°N, 78.36°WEdinburg — 38.99°N, 78.35°WEdinburg — 38.84°N, 78.55°WEdinburg — 38.56°N, 78.86°WVoskresenka — 51.17°N, 82.05°EVoskresenka — 51.44°N, 83.15°EVoskresenka — 51.62°N, 82.62°EGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.42°WDay Point — 44.65°N, 73.45°WDay Point — 44.84°N, 73.36°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.00°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WValcour — 44.87°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.62°N, 73.40°WValcour — 44.30°N, 73.31°WTable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WLas Aguaditas — 30.33°S, 68.82°WStinchar Limestone — 55.20°N, 4.75°WConfinis Flags — 55.19°N, 4.75°WConfinis Flags — 55.13°N, 4.96°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WEsbataottine & Sunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WMcLish — 34.36°N, 97.14°WBenjamin — 42.08°S, 145.56°EBenjamin — 41.98°S, 145.33°EKildare Limestone — 53.20°N, 6.92°WCrugan Mudstone — 53.00°N, 4.00°WRhiwlas Limestone — 53.00°N, 3.00°W

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The named rock units Ceraurinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceraurinella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceraurinella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Ceraurinella, 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

44 references

Each of the 141 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. 32 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 Ceraurinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceraurinella 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1953