Ceraurinella scofieldi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeraurinellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ceraurinella
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Ceraurinella scofieldi 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
8 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
7 formations
- Mifflin Formation · Platteville Group2
- Lebanon Limestone Formation1
- Platteville Formation1
- Pecatonica Formation1
- Grand Detour Formation1
- Nachusa Formation1
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The named rock units Ceraurinella scofieldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceraurinella scofieldi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceraurinella scofieldi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Bathyurus (Raymondites) longispinus7 sites
- Bumastus (Bumastoides) milleri7 sites
- Campylorthis deflecta7 sites
- Gabriceraurus7 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa7 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria7 sites
- Illaenus7 sites
- Isotelus simplex7 sites
- Acanthocrania6 sites
- Acanthocrania setigera6 sites
- Basilicus (Basiliella)6 sites
- Doleroides6 sites
- Manespira nicolleti6 sites
- Oepikina minnesotensis6 sites
- Petrocrania6 sites
- Pseudolingula iowensis6 sites
- Rostricellula minnesotensis6 sites
- Sceptaspis lincolnensis6 sites
- Amphilichas5 sites
- Pionodema5 sites
- Orbiculoidea4 sites
- Pseudolingula eva4 sites
- Schizambon4 sites
- Skenidioides anthonense4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ceraurinella scofieldi, 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
4 references- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area5
- Platteville and Decorah Trilobites from Illinois and Wisconsin1
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
Each of the 8 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 Ceraurinella scofieldi 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 Ceraurinella scofieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceraurinella scofieldi 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 itCeraurinella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarke 1897)