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Ceratocephala ✝

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Ceratocephala may refer to :

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratocephala, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3267066	https://www.gbif.org/species/3267066
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	19787	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19787

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Odontopleuridae : Ceratocephala

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Odontopleurida : Odontopleuridae : Ceratocephala

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
class	Trilobita	Walch 1771
order	Odontopleurida	Whittington 1959
family	Odontopleuridae	Burmeister 1843
subfamily	Miraspidinae	Richter and Richter 1917
genus	Ceratocephala	Warder 1838

Scientific Name

Ceratocephala Warder, 1838

Name Published In

Amer. J. Sci., 34 (2)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ceratocephala	genus	belongs to Odontopleuridae	stated without evidence	Raymond, 1916
Ceratocephala	genus	belongs to Miraspidinae	stated with evidence	Bruton, 1966
Ceratocephala	genus	belongs to Odontopleurida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Ceratocephala	genus	belongs to Odontopleuridae	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 472 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

403 - 383 Ma
Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed (based on Odontopleuridae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Odontopleuridae)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Harrington et al. (1959).

Taphonomy

major spines

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratocephala

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		11	467 Ma Middle Ordovician	426 Ma Silurian
Ceratocephala exigua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Ceratocephala goniata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	443 Ma Silurian	433 Ma Silurian
Ceratocephala graffhami ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ceratocephala impedita ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	426 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Ceratocephala laciniata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ceratocephala laticapitata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Ceratocephala phalaenocephala ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ceratocephala rarispina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ceratocephala triacantheis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ceratocephala tridens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ceratocephala vexilla ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Onchaspis Raymond, 1925	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Odontopleuridae : *Onchaspis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Ceratocephala Warder
1916	Ceratocephala Raymond p. 24
1925	Onchaspis Raymond p. 129
1966	Ceratocephala Bruton
1967	Ceratocephala Bruton
2002	Ceratocephala Jell and Adrain p. 356
2002	Ceratocephala Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Raymond P. E. (1916) New and old Silurian trilobites from Southeastern Wisconsin, with notes on the genera of the Illaenidae, Bulletin of the Musuem of Comparative Zoology 60 1, 1-42

Bruton D. L. (1966) A Revision of the Swedish Ordovician Odontopleuridae (Trilobita), Publications from the Palaeontological Institution of the University of Uppsala 67

Bruton D. L. (1967) Silurian Odontopleurid Trilobites from Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia, Palaeontology 10 2, 214-244

Jell P. A., Adrain J. M. (2002) Available generic names for trilobites, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48 2, 331-553

Amer. J. Sci., 34 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

extinct group - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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