Gabriceraurus

Gabriceraurus is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now Canada. It was described by Pribyl and Vanek in 1985, and the type species is Gabriceraurus gabrielsi, which was originally described under the genus Ceraurus by Ludvigsen in 1979. The type locality was the Esbataottine Formation in the Northwest Territories.

Gabriceraurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CheiruridaePBDB
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 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 456.6 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 30 of 30 occurrencesOrdovician462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456.6 Mya451 Mya461.6 Mya444.7 Mya

30 occurrences of Gabriceraurus 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

30 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

18 formations

Bobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 44.58°N, 79.09°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WStinchar Limestone — 55.20°N, 4.75°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.00°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine & Sunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WLourdes Limestone — 48.58°N, 59.10°W

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The named rock units Gabriceraurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gabriceraurus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Gabriceraurus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

465 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Gabriceraurus, 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

10 references

Each of the 30 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

Media content1

Picture of Gabriceraurus

Credit
Spoonkymonkey
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gabriceraurus 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.

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. Pribyl and Vanek 1985