Ceraurus maewestoides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeraurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ceraurus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ceraurus maewestoides 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
2 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
- Whittaker Formation1
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group1
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The named rock units Ceraurus maewestoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceraurus maewestoides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ceraurus maewestoides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Cybeloides2 sites
- Dolichoharpes2 sites
- Sowerbyella2 sites
- Algae1 site
- Amygdalocystites1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Astrocystites1 site
- Bairdiocypris1 site
- Borealaspis biformis1 site
- Bumastoides1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Calymenida indet.1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Ceraurinella brevispina1 site
- Ceraurinus1 site
- Ceraurus milleranus1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Cheirurinida indet.1 site
- Chondrites1 site
- Cladida1 site
- Cleiocrinus1 site
- Constellaria1 site
- Conulariida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ceraurus maewestoides, 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
2 references- A new marrellomorph arthropod from southern Ontario: a rare case of soft-tissue preservation on a Late Ordovician open marine shelf1
- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie1
Each of the 2 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ceraurus maewestoides 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 Ceraurus maewestoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceraurus maewestoides 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 itCeraurus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ludvigsen 1979