Quadricarina scutulata

No picture of Quadricarina scutulata 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 Quadricarina scutulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QuadricarinaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433.4 Mya430.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Quadricarina scutulata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Upper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°ESlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°E

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

Quadricarina scutulata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Quadricarina scutulata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Quadricarina scutulata, 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

1 reference

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 Quadricarina scutulata 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 Quadricarina scutulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Quadricarina scutulata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)