Ceraurinus

Ceraurinus is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida.

Ceraurinus

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
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 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 84 of 86 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 86 occurrencesSilurian469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 4 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 13 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 7 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya449.5 Mya468.7 Mya432.2 Mya

86 occurrences of Ceraurinus 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

86 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

37 formations

Whittaker — 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°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.17°N, 91.42°EMangazea — 62.30°N, 92.12°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.79°N, 84.90°WZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EZagornyi — 62.00°N, 90.00°EDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EDolbor — 62.15°N, 91.43°EHanson Creek — 39.38°N, 116.14°WHanson Creek — 39.00°N, 116.00°WWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WChedao — 37.00°N, 107.00°EChedao — 36.00°N, 107.00°ELindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WVauréal — 49.67°N, 63.00°WXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.30°EGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.01°EGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.34°ETekhten — 50.99°N, 85.09°ETekhten — 50.97°N, 85.05°EWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EFremont — 38.00°N, 105.00°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°W

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The named rock units Ceraurinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceraurinus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceraurinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

848 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Ceraurinus, 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

34 references

Each of the 86 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. 22 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 content2

Picture of Ceraurinus

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Ceraurinus icarus · KU:KUMIP:341608

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. Barton 1913