Confusiscala

Confusiscala

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpitoniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 24 of 45 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 45 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 45 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya33.9 Mya135 Mya25 Mya

45 occurrences of Confusiscala on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

45 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

21 formations

opoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°EAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.80°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EHornbrook — 42.16°N, 122.66°WHornbrook — 41.81°N, 122.51°WHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.95°EManantial — 11.54°N, 72.91°WManantial — 11.11°N, 72.68°WRedding — 40.61°N, 122.41°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.25°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WAgrio — 38.20°S, 70.05°WAgrio — 38.68°S, 70.07°WFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.45°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WCapas Rojas — 40.61°N, 0.13°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EIshido — 36.06°N, 138.86°EChico — 39.85°N, 121.71°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.63°W

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The named rock units Confusiscala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Confusiscala and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Confusiscala and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Confusiscala, 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

27 references

Each of the 45 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Confusiscala

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEpitoniidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Boury 1909)