Ellipsoscapha

Ellipsoscapha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphandridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Philinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Philinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Philinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 84 of 89 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 89 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 89 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 14 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 15 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 12 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya59.24 Mya94.7 Mya55.2 Mya

89 occurrences of Ellipsoscapha on record, most of them in the Late 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

89 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

22 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.92°N, 86.17°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.75°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.71°N, 85.09°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.43°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WPierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.33°WPeedee — 33.89°N, 79.41°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.49°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WPrince Creek — 70.05°N, 151.63°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WPigeon Point — 37.20°N, 122.40°WCorsicana — 29.47°N, 98.29°WLadd — 33.74°N, 117.62°WBasilika — 78.11°N, 14.60°E

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The named rock units Ellipsoscapha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellipsoscapha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ellipsoscapha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,006 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Ellipsoscapha, 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

19 references

Each of the 89 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. 7 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 Ellipsoscapha

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itScaphandridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941